Detectives attached to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Tuesday morning raided the home of Kisumu county speaker Onyango Oloo.
The house is located in the lavish Milimani estate within Kisumu town.
EACC officers also raided houses belonging to current and former officials of the Lake Basin Development Authority (LBDA) in Kisumu and Nairobi.
Oloo is the former chairman of LBDA.
Yassin Aila, who is the EACC Communications Officer, stated that the raids were part of investigations into the loss of millions of shillings used for the construction of Kisumu Lake Basin Development Authority mall.
EACC was investigating two major issues with the construction of the mall, one being the cost variation for the building materials and the labour.
The commission was also trying to figure out how the authority used government title deeds to acquire loans from a local bank without the consent of the Attorney General.
LBDA took a loan of Ksh2.5 billion from the bank which was charged to the title deed of the authority’s land.
The former secretary general at The National Alliance (TNA) executed the contract for the construction of the LBDA mall in Kisumu whose debt stood at Ksh4.2 billion.
Oloo appended his signature to a deed of variation of form agreement on February 17, 2015, alongside LBDA Chief Engineer, Kabok Aguko, varying the bid price to Ksh3.86 billion.
The original agreement of the contract provides that the bid price amounted to Ksh2.45 billion.
