Pavicon Group is not registered as a company in Kenya as of January 20, 2025 while it has been awarded tenders by Safaricom.
And Still, this has not stopped Josephine Kanyi from publicly presenting herself as the CEO of Pavicon Group for months, even inviting senior Safaricom employees to visit ongoing projects by “Pavicon Group”.
So, is Safaricom working with an unregistered company which is against its own (company) corporate rules?
What has happened is that the owners of the registered company want it to appear bigger, wealthier, and more capable than it really is. This could be due to the desire to get more tenders and/or more better-paying tenders.
The apparent image of a wealthy and successful company that owns subsidiaries has the quantitative benefit of attracting more businesses (including tenders and contracts) as well as the qualitative advantage of bagging high paying contracts and being in good position to get good terms of debt financing.
Safaricom tenders pay better than tenders the company got previously, such as the tender the registered company Pavicon Kenya Limited got in September 2020 with a government agency. The registered company is Pavicon Kenya Limited.
On September 23rd, 2020, Pavicon Kenya Limited was awarded a tender worth KES 21,278,869 by the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC). REREC is a government agency that works closely with Kenya Power. For reference, the tender number was 1000000462, and members of the evaluation team were Jonathan Mbutu, Nicholas Muigai, John Otido, and Caroline Kelly. On the same day, this evaluation team also awarded tenders to Bizrate Enterprises and Go Solar Systems. This information is enough to confirm that Pavicon was awarded a tender on the said date by a government agency. Now, the focus shifts to the company.
As mentioned earlier, Pavicon Group was not registered at the time the report was first published. The company that was confirmed to be registered is Pavicon Kenya Limited which was duly-registered in 2011 with the registration number CPR/2011/52865 and company PIN P051363817W.
Pavicon Kenya Limited (or Pavicon (K) Limited) has two listed directors and two corporate secretaries. The directors are Joel Kanyi Kimani and Josephine Njeri Ngugi. Josephine Njeri Ngugi is the majority shareholder with 700 shares, while Joel has 300 shares. The two corporate secretaries are Charles N. Njenga and Emily Nafula Nyogesa.
Apart from Pavicon (K) Limited, Joel Kanyi is registered as the owner of two other companies – Pabit Enterprises and Fufu Enterprises– as well as the director of two companies – Prunes Plastic Limited and Expedition Motors Limited. For Josephine Njeri, she is listed as the owner of Robinia Enterprises and Aqualet Enterprises, as well as the director of Espin Limited and Pavicon Technologies Limited (which was mentioned earlier in this post).
In Kenya, a private company can have a corporate secretary – commonly described as the company secretary – who can be registered with the Institute of Certified Secretaries (ICS). According to Muhoro and Gitonga Associates – a law firm – the company secretary serves to ensure that the company complies with legal and mandatory regulatory frameworks, as well as promote good corporate governance while aiding directors in making strategic decisions that impact the viability of the company. This means that the corporate secretary can be involved in creation of informal business names and change of names of a registered business entity.
So, did Charles Njenga and Emily Nyongesa give the green light for the registered company to present itself publicly as Pavicon Group? If yes, does this expose the companies associated with these two secretaries to reputational risks, as well as legal and compliance risks? These two secretaries are associated with over two dozen companies/businesses.
Charles Njenga is associated with 20 other companies/businesses, namely:
- Adept Designs and Creations Limited
- Afribridge Construction Company Limited
- Africem Engineering Limited
- Afrinova Insurance Agency Limited
- Aquinas Construction Company Limited
- Babuji Supplies Limited
- Gemini Logistics Limited
- Jerewaithemu Investments Limited
- Kewell Investments Limited
- Kings Gate Development Limited
- Kuja Trading Company Limited
- Ngorika Limited
- Prime Home Depot Limited
- Prime Roofing Limited
- Ruiru Academy Limited
- Salnatek Investments Limited
- Tokop Kenya Limited
- Touchon Computer System Limited
- Vivacity Limited
- World Class Motorcade Limited
Apart from Pavicon Kenya Limited and Nyongesa Nafula and Company Advocates, Emily Nyongesa is associated with 6 other companies,/businesses, namely:
- Asili Food Produce Limited
- Convey Dot Africa Limited
- Globe Oil Service Station Kenya Limited
- Greladies Investments Limited
- Jubilee Ventures Limited
- Kikingi Holdings Limited
On February 2, 2025, a search made for Charles Njenga in the membership list provided by the ICS returned a negative result i.e he is not listed as an ICS-certified company secretary. A similar search for Emily Nyongesa on the ICS membership list expectedly returned a negative result. This was to be expected as she is an advocate whose practicing status is indicated as active by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). Her work place is listed as Nyongesa Nafula & Co. Advocates as shown below.
Because one of the corporate secretaries was an advocate, search for Charles Njenga in the LSK advocate list returned a result for a Charles Ngugi Njenga whose license number is P.105/5734/05 and the assigned LSK practice number is LSK/2025/008139. His work place is listed as MKN & Co. Advocates as shown below.
What is interesting is that MKN & Co. Advocates was not listed by the Business Registration Service (BRS) as one of the entities associated with Charles Njenga of Pavicon (K) Limited.
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