“Can you show us any company executives or managers that have been jailed due to research published by Kagirison Research?”
Criminals, Misconduct, and Nouveau Judicial Precedents
As it turns outs, Kagirison Research has had significant impact in the corporate ecosystem of Safaricom Group, including forcing the exit of Paul Gathura, who had been promoted in 2022 from Principal Sourcing Manager at Safaricom PLC to become a Senior Manager in Supply Chain Management in the same company. Admittedly, Gathura’s exit is largely due to his mistakes and the mishandling of a delicate high-impact situation as explained later. Now, can Kagirison Research influence the process that will ensure that Safaricom employees who committed crimes are held accountable? Equally, how did Kagirison Research come to know of these matters concerning supply chain fraud, and what is the chronology of events that led to realization that international crimes had been committed? Basically, how did research into supply chain fraud lead to unconcealment of international crimes?
Can Kagirison Research influence the process that will ensure that Safaricom employees who committed crimes are held accountable?
UPDATE: In April 2026, Eric Anderson Kabugo Mugo – who was adversely named in the cluster of crimes committed by Safaricom employees – exited Safaricom and joined the specialist agency of the United Nations tasked with globally promoting and protecting intellectual property (IP) rights, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). On Friday, May 22, 2026, I sent a communication to WIPO expressing my concerns about Eric Mugo, with particular emphasis on his “integrity, impartiality, and adherence to investigative standards (especially as it concerns evidentiary reliability)”.
In June 2024, Benard Njoroge acknowledges that he is facing strong headwinds in the corporate tendering process, and as the Managing Director of the company he founded – Adrian Kenya Limited (AKL), he needs tenders from Safaricom PLC to keep his company afloat. However, the headwinds are too strong and he fears for AKL, which was then the key pillar of Adrian Group.
How did research into supply chain fraud lead to unconcealment of international crimes?
After contacting Adrian Group in December 2024, it took down its website, along with the sister website for Adrian Kenya; and both websites have remained offline ever since. Adrian Group grew out of Adrian Kenya Limited. Adrian Group has misrepresented itself as a public company, though I have not found any records of it ever being listed or cross-listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). I even asked NSE if Adrian Group or AKL is a listed company that did its IPO in Kenya, or if it was listed in a foreign stock exchange and later cross-listed in NSE. Currently, there seems to be a relationship between Adrian Group and Agrarian (a platform that bills itself as Kenya’s Agricultural Hub), as well as Adrian Investments Group Limited (a company registered in 2023 in the United Kingdom and dissolved in February 2026).
Since Adrian Kenya Limited started working with Safaricom in 2009, and later attaining the status of Safaricom business partner, Benard Njoroge had developed a liking for some Safaricom employees, including Sylvia Mulinge. It is also notable that some of his employees had transitioned to work in Safaricom.
Benard Njoroge hoped that his company’s contracts with Safaricom will support the amortization of a term loan provided by Citibank N.A. Kenya; as well as finance his ambitious plans, which included maintenance of AKL’s formal collaboration with Strathmore University – which was established through a Memorandum of Understanding penned in September 2022.
In 2024, Adrian Kenya Limited was in a bind. Sylvia Mulinge had exited Safaricom for MTN Uganda, and Safaricom had a new CEO – Peter Ndegwa (who assumed office in April 2020). Njoroge had reservations about Ndegwa, mainly because of how the supply chain department was operating during Ndegwa’s tenure. More so, Njoroge had identified the person in the supply chain department who was muscling him out of lucrative deals, in favor of companies that he believed had ties to Safaricom employees.
So who was this person who Njoroge blamed for AKL losing Safaricom contracts? His name is Paul Gathura. Kagirison Research would influence the exit of Paul Gathura from Safaricom, though Njoroge wanted Gathura to be pushed out of the supply chain department. Despite Gathura’s exit, Adrian Kenya Limited could not re-establish its former level of partnership with Safaricom. With its order book thinning, AKL could not attend fully to its obligations, and was even given an official custom notice through Gazette Notice Number 5171 (published in the Kenya Gazette in April 2025) for overstay of a consignment of fiber optic cables. In October 2025, the Communications Authority of Kenya revoked the license of Adrian Kenya Limited through a formal licence revocation notice published in the Kenya Gazette. The licence revocation was due to non-compliance with regulatory requirements.
Supply Chain Fraud
Kagirison Research was established during the conflict between Bernard Njoroge and Safaricom’s supply chain department that was then staffed by Paul Gathura and Triphosa Makandi. This conflict and the contemporaneous supply chain fraud involving Rigathi led to the exit of Paul Gathura, loss of standing by Adrian Kenya Limited, and Kagirison research scoring its first high-impact success. At this juncture, this question could arise: isn’t this a matter of ex turpi causa non oritur actio? This issue is addressed in this post, along with the doctrine of in pari delicto as it applies to Gathura and Bernard Njoroge. For now, the focus shifts to an interesting issue.
How is Rigathi involved in supply chain fraud in Safaricom? It started in ….
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