Former senior government official ordered to return Ksh.198m in unexplained wealth case
Former government official at Nairobi City County ordered to pay Gov't Ksh.198M in unexplained wealth case
Former government official at Nairobi City County ordered to pay Gov’t Ksh.198M in unexplained wealth case.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has scored a major win following a High Court’s ruling requiring a former City Hall official to pay Ksh.198 million as costs for questionable sources of wealth.
In May 2023, the High Court froze the assets belonging to Michael Auka Ajwang, a Nairobi County Purchasing Officer, after he failed to justify the source of the unexplained wealth.
The listed assets include ten vehicles, nine parcels of land in Siaya and Kisumu counties, with one of the lands housing a high-end hotel.
According to a ruling seen by Citizen Digital, Adelaide Sisenda, Deputy Registrar of the High Court ordered Ajwang pay Ksh.22 million as costs for a parcel of land in Siaya within 30 days from the date of judgment.
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He was ordered to pay Ksh.176 million as costs of the high-end hotel within 12 months from the date of judgment.
In case the suspect fails to pay the amount, the court ordered 0.19 hectares of the hotel to be hived off from a parcel of land in Kisumu and the commission was granted the right to take legal action to enforce the judgment and recover the amount.
“That in default thereof, The Hydeout Riviera Hotel, measuring approximately 0.19 Ha be hived off from Parcel Number Kisumu/Reru/1453 and the Plaintiff be at liberty to execute and the decretal sum to accrue interest at 12 percent per annum,” read part of the court ruling.
Further, the commission was given the greenlight to seize a sum of Ksh.799,000 seized from Ajwang.
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