Moses Kuria Linked to Multi-Million Ghost Stadium Projects

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Thursday, April 6, 2023 –It has emerged that Cabinet Secretary CS for Trade and Industry, Moses Kuria, is among key beneficiaries of fake stadium cash out in the previous regime.

Though, when Uhuru and Ruto took charge of the country in 2013, their first priority was building stadia, Homenews.co.ke has learnt that most of these stadia have been turned into grazing fields.

Nation.Africa, through a story published on Thursday April 6, established that on January 5, 2017, Smith & Gold Productions Ltd was handed the site on which Karatu Stadium in Gatundu South constituency, Kiambu County, would be built.

The inexperienced firm had bagged a tender to construct a world class multimillion facility for sh 259,604,780. Records from the Business Registration Service BRS indicate that the firm, incorporated on July 16, 2013, is jointly owned by Emerging Capital Holdings Ltd (700 shares) and Aloise Kinyanjui Kuria (300 shares).

In June 2017, then President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, Dr William Ruto (current President) were at the height of their campaigns for a second term in office.

At the time, talk was rife of a looming end to a partnership that had, for five years, looked like a brotherhood made in heaven.

But the two shook off the rumours during the launch of the Jubilee Party manifesto at the Moi International Sports Stadium in Kasarani, Nairobi, and made massive promises to millions of young Kenyans in the sports sector, which had suffered neglect by successive regimes.

And among those who ran away with the tenders were their close allies in public offices For example, Emerging Capital Holdings Ltd which won part of the lucrative tender is fully owned by Mr Moses Kiarie Kuria, the Cabinet Secretary for Trade and Industry. Aloise Kinyanjui Kuria is the CS’s brother.

Mr Kuria’s being part of Smith & Gold bagged the tender when he was still serving as the Gatundu South Member of Parliament hence conflict of interest.

Smith & Gold Productions Ltd had no previous record of building and construction within specifications drawn by Sports Kenya, a department of the Ministry of Sports.

After taking over the site, earth movers and other heavy machines roared in the usually silent ground ready to turn the hills into another stadium but this was just another Public Relation stunt.

Approximately 40 per cent of the funds had been released to Smith & Gold, but only 20 per cent of work was done.

In 2020, the National Assembly Departmental Committee on Sports, Culture and Tourism tried to interview but Mr. Kuria responded with an ‘idiot’ word.

“Stop this idiotic witch-hunt,” he responded in a text message as claimed.

The committee also found out that Smith & Gold had not factored in a drainage system for the facility.