The activist, Okiya Omtata, has moved to court requesting that Athi Water Services stops progress in of Nairobi Bulk water supply project.
Omtata referred the matter as urgent, arguing that the project was mismanagement.
According to him, the public risks losing up to Ksh 6 Million.
The activist claimed that, the CEO of Athi Water Services secretly, irregularly and illegally signed the contract with the China State Construction Corporation (K) Limited on September 29, without the knowledge and authorization of the Board of Directors of the Athi Water.
“We as the petitioners of the case are apprehensive that public funds are likely to be lost the same way Anglo-Leasing was lost – in an unclear scandal. The Chinese contractor company has not been registered locally and does not have the capacity to be contracted,” said Omtata.
“The Chinese local office has not been disclosed in the contract, so this is yet another ghost way to have public funds disappear,” argued Omtata.