Govt lost another Ksh 134M in dubious payments Report

The government has seized 1.6 billion shillings in assets in the ongoing war on graft and proceeds of corruption.

Apart from the infamous 791 million shillings siphoned through fraudulent payments, at least another 134 million shillings in cash, land and vehicles has been recovered as well after freezing of accounts and seizing of physical assets.

Former Nairobi Chief Finance Officer Jimmy Kiamba has had cash and property valued at about eight hundred million shillings frozen once again.

Imagine opening a bank account and depositing some four thousand shillings only and two days later, a new deposit of forty five million shillings is made into the same account.

This, it has emerged, is just part of the monies fraudulently paid out from the National Youth Service (NYS).

Save from the 791 million shillings already in the public domain in fraudulent NYS payments, Betty Njoki Mureithi and Jennifer Muthoni Kinoti of Blue Star Enterprises have had their cash frozen, all of the 45 million shillings they held through accounts at Paramount Bank.

Kenrie Limited has had its 89 million shillings held at Family Bank seized as well after it was discovered the monies were paid out in fraudulent payments for supplies to the NYS.

Jimmy Kiamba, former Nairobi City County Chief Finance Officer, has once again had his assets frozen, one hundred million in cash and 700 million held through assets such as vehicles and land, have been seized.

His vast assets include two maisonettes in South C, a town house in Kileleshwa, four apartments in Kilimani and eight plots of land in Muthaiga, Mavoko and Machakos as well as a fleet of six cars.

Kiamba, whose net salary was in the region between forty five and fifty three million shillings, earned five point eight million shillings after tax, from 2009 to 2015.

Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC) detectives discovered he held nine bank accounts in five banks, where daily deposits were made., each running into millions.

Absalom Ndori, a prison warder, has had his six million shillings in cash seized, after he was suspected of using his own company to supply provisions to the Kenya Prison Service.

Then there’s Ephraim Maina, a businessman, who is among individuals under investigation for inflated land prices to dupe the Kenya Ports Authority retirement benefits scheme. Consequently, his 280 million shillings has been seized.

A KRA principal revenue officer – Joseph Gikonyo Chege is among others whose 10 million shillings has been seized as well as a 2.8 hectares piece of land worth 5.5 million shillings that had been preserved in Meru County.

The land is believed to be public property and as such, the EACC is investigating the Mbuuri cattle dip self help group.

As pertains the NYS saga,  the asset recovery agency and the directorate of criminal investigations has seized 165 million shillings worth of land, vehicles worth 41 million shillings, frozen 176 million shillings in bank accounts and other property worth 16 million shillings.

Editor’s Note: The Ephraim Maina mentioned in the report is not the former MP