National Land Commission (NLC) acting chairperson Abigail Mbagaya is under investigation for allegedly receiving Ksh 400Million bribe.
It is alleged she received the cash to facilitate processing of leases for 2 parcels of land in Dandora and Ruaraka.
The investigation is being run by a multi-agency team including the DCI, EACC, Bank Fraud Unit, and Asset Recovery Unit.
The team is also probing claims that that she received a motor vehicle as a gift from a salt firm in Kilifi.
Mbagaya however denied the accusations citing she only owns one car which she personally imported.
“Investigators are also tying together details of large international money transfers that she frequently does,” a source hinted.
She is also under investigation for allocating land around Lukenya set aside for resettling squatters to her relatives under the Kivaye Self Help Group.
“EACC is investigating the Kivaye issue. All commissioners have been summoned and have written statements. But interestingly this is private land where we don’t have powers to allocate,” she remarked.
He former aide filed a statement with the police claiming he was sacked after Mbagaya received Ksh 10million from David Barno Some for the lease of Caxton House on Kenyatta Avenue.
“Some handed us the box with the cash which we took to the car owned and driven by another commissioner. The commissioner was to deliver the same to Mrs Mbagaya. I declined the offer to board the same car,” the affidavit read.
“I discharged my bodyguard in early July after I received complaints that he had transformed himself into my PA handling letters.
I understand he has been picked up by people who are fighting me. They have hired a lawyer for him and given him money to fight me. We know those who are meeting him in his house to write negative statements about me,” the commissioner stated.
Later on Mbagaya allegedly called him and complained that Ksh 2million was missing.
According to the Star, she later fired him from her office and tried to get him sacked from the National Police Service.
On Thursday, a file that listed her as a witness against NLC chairman Mohammed Swazuri, CEO Tom Chavangi and other managers implicated in the fraudulent purchase of land for the Standard Gauge Railway.
