Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu's woes with the EACC continue to increase as detectives have uncovered a money trail that they suspect could have been kickbacks from a contractor.
An affidavit from Detective Regina Ng’ang’a that was filed in court on Thursday shows companies the governor allegedly used to receive the suspicious funds.
Some of the firms are Saika Two Estate Developers, which he owns with his daughter Monica Njeri, Bienvenue Delta Hotel belonging to him and his wife Susan Wangari as well as Connex Logistics Africa, which is owned by his spouse.
According to the document, a company by the name Testimony Enterprise won a tender for the proposed improvement of eight gravel roads to bituminous standard using soil stabilisation technology in 2018, after quoting Ksh588 million.
18 days after the deal was signed the firm opened a bank account with a local financial institution which made EACC question the company's previous existence.
Detectives found out that on various dates, the same company paid a total of Ksh25.4 million to Waititu's Saika Two Developers.
The other firm, Bienvenue Delta Hotel Ltd, where Waititu and his wife are co-directors, received Ksh5.2 million.
“Testimony Enterprise Ltd has so far been irregularly paid quite a substantial amount of money without raising certificates required to quantify the work.
The money paid was thereafter transferred to either the Testimony directors’ accounts and later to the governor’s account, his wife, daughter and companies associated with the governor,” reads the affidavit.
When contacted about the above-listed transactions, the governor responded that the cash was payment for land and fuel he had sold to Charles Chege, the owner of the company that won the tender.
