In his career as a civil servant, the Mwai Kibaki minister for Finance, who died Thursday, was always beyond reproach — until he touched the Anglo Leasing files and appended his signature to a document. As the Finance minister — and perhaps in panic — Mwiraria had told the nation that no money was lost, claiming it had been wired back. It is a feat no other Finance minister has managed and, for that, Mwiraria was in a class of his own. While he shone in that, his rise to Finance minister in Kibaki’s Narc government was mired in controversy as a result of the MoU politics and the Anglo Leasing scandal. Pereira was the mastermind of the Anglo Leasing projects and had set up several shadowy companies, and Mwiraria painfully protested.

Source: Daily Nation April 13, 2017 20:55 UTC