Thirty years later, multi-billion shilling Goldenberg scandal still a riddle wrapped in a mystery

Earlier on, an Auditor General report had hinted to the fraud. But then as now, Auditor-General reports in Kenya are treated with same casualness one takes a crime fiction or movie! Goldenberg balloon first leaked when David Munyakei, a clerk at the Central Bank of Kenya noted some voodoo arithmetic regarding export compensation paid to a company by name Goldenberg International for gold and diamonds exported from the country, which was all fiction.

On raising questions, the young man didn't know what hit him as he suddenly found himself jobless, penniless and finally killed by a "sudden" death. At that early stage, the Goldenberg scandal was understood to have been a fraud involving just payments by the Central Bank to a company that pretended to export gold and diamonds when all it had done is to sell what Chief Justice Martha Koome would call 'hot air'!