The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) obtained court orders to freeze two prime apartments located in Nairobi's Mombasa Road allegedly purchased using government funds.
The commission confirmed on Wednesday, June 28, that the apartments were partly purchased by government officials including a procurement officer from Vihiga County and his two wives.
One of the wives, according to EACC, was also an employee at the same county.
Others implicated in the case included a former county chief officer, his wife and eight other individuals.
Additionally, the commission noted that the two apartments located along Mombasa Road and Fourways Junction Estate were worth Ksh27.5 million.
“The apartments at Nextgen Park and Fourways Junction are worth Ksh14 million and Ksh13.5 million, respectively,” stated the commission.
The move was part of the commission's crackdown on the theft of public funds and property as stated by its chairman David Oginde. While taking oath of office, he stated that he would establish effective anti-corruption strategies to promote ethics, integrity, and good governance.
In a separate incident on June 21, the EACC ordered a Nairobi woman to surrender a house that she was accused of acquiring illegally. The commission noted that if the lady failed to move out, it would obtain an eviction warrant and eject her.
The property was marked with a caveat while the woman, her servants, and agents were warned not to trespass or interfere with it.
"A permanent injunction restraining the woman, her servants and or agents from alienating, encumbering, disposing of, wasting, and trespassing upon or in any other way interfering with the property except by way of surrender back to the Government,” an EACC noted.
