Senior staff at the Ministry of Interior which is under CS Fred Matiang'i lost property to the government in the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC) crackdown.
EACC Chairman Eliud Wabukala added that the crackdown was extended to civil servants at the National Lands Commission.
The employees at both government offices lost over Ksh 200 million and unidentified public assets which were dubbed as proceeds of crime and corruption.
"We have managed to trace and recover cash and public assets that were illegally acquired," Wabukala stated.
He added that among the property on EACC radar are land and other personal investments which he hopes would be seized.
The move comes a month after EACC cracked down on former Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) employees. One of the former staff lost property he had illegally acquired from the company.
Francis Githui Wahome who worked as a preventive officer at the government body was ordered to surrender land he illegally acquired from KRA as well as pay Ksh1 million in damages.
On December 2, the EACC disclosed that it had recovered public assets worth Ksh 6.2 billion in 2020.
The assets include cash stashed in bank accounts, land and motor vehicles which were handed back to the Government.
EACC CEO Twalib Mbarak said that they had recovered over Ksh 20 billion assets in the period between 2015 and 2020.
“The commission is in active pursuit of forfeiture of unexplained wealth and so far we have instituted suits seeking to recover public assets,” Mbarak stated.
