Former Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) acting manager Samwel Maina apologized to State Department of Broadcasting and Telecommunications Principal Secretary (PS) Edward Kisiangani and ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo before his sacking.
According to the letter seen by Sharp Daily, Maina owned up to the mistake he was accused of in the sack letter that was drafted by CS Owalo and the KBC board.
The MD had apparently offered USD five billion (KES.769.5 billion) to Channel 2, instead of the KES 5 billion as instructed by the parent ministry.
Maina acknowledged his error and notified the two superiors that he had rescinded the decision in a letter addressed to the CS and PS.
“I profusely apologize for not consulting yourself or the principal secretary of our ministry before writing the letter. I have also noted there was a grievous misrepresentation of the figure quoted in the letter.” I have forthwith withdrawn the letter and committed that such an error will not occur again, as the letter read in part.
The Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communications, and Technology, Eliud Owalo, terminated the appointment of Samuel Maina as acting managing director of the state-owned Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) on Tuesday over a commitment made by Maina to pay KES 770 billion in an arbitration case without proper authorization.
In a letter dated December 18, Maina pledged that KBC would pay the settlement to Channel 2 Group Corporation in the London Court of International Arbitration case No. 122233.
Owalo said Maina did so “without seeking the concurrence of the Ministry, National Treasury, the Office of the Attorney General, and the Department of Justice.”
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