The True Story of David Munyakei: Goldenberg WhistleblowerAfrican Books Collective, 2008 - 135 pages In April 1992, David Sadera Munyakei, a newly employed clerk at the Central Bank of Kenya started noticing irregularities in the export compensation claims he was processing. On July 31st 2006, Kenya's biggest whistleblower passed away in rural obscurity, 14 years after exposing the Goldenberg scandal, Kenya's biggest economic scandal to date, estimated at over USD 1 billion. Billy Kahora recounts his story. |
Contents
Cast of Characters | 7 |
Chronology of Events | 9 |
Flight to Mombasa | 17 |
OlokurtoNarok The Formative Years and the Return of the Native | 37 |
Nairobi Do Not Be Green in the City in the Sun Kula Pesa ya Pattni | 55 |
Transparency International the Goldenberg Commission and How CBK and the Government Vomited on Munyakeis Shoes | 69 |
A Schizophrenic Interlude The Suit | 85 |
The Final Chapter Let Us Now Praise A Hero Long Days Journey Into Night The 9 O Clock News | 93 |
Back Into the Future | 113 |
Epilogue | 121 |
Front Cover | 139 |
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