EACC raid Nairobi Urban Planning Chief Officer’s home, recovers 250M in cash
EACC raid Nairobi Urban Planning Chief Officer's home, recovers 250M in cash
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has raided the home of a senior Nairobi County official from the Urban Planning Department as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption.
According to reports, EACC detectives conducted the operation on the morning of Thursday, June 4, during which they recovered key evidence, including large sums of cash whose exact amount has yet to be disclosed.
Reports indicate that the cash recovered is worth millions of shillings and is currently in the custody of EACC detectives as investigations continue.
Nairobi Governor has not issued a statement regarding the arrest of a key member of his cabinet as of the time this story was published.
Nairobi County’s CEC has a history of financial scandals spanning over a decade, with multiple senior officials facing arrest, prosecution, and conviction for alleged misappropriation of billions in public funds.
Former Governor Evans Kidero and senior officials were arrested in August 2018 over a Ksh 213 million fraud scheme, with additional charges following in April 2019 over irregular payments.
After a five-year trial, the Anti-Corruption Court acquitted Kidero in November 2025, ruling that prosecutors failed to prove he personally authorized or benefited from the irregularly disbursed county funds.
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Chief Finance Officer Jimmy Kiamba and County Secretary Lilian Ndegwa were sentenced to 12 years in July 2022, after the High Court overturned an earlier acquittal in a KSh 18 million procurement scandal.
Finance CECM Charles Kerich faced suspension in 2019 over planning irregularities and was later jailed for contempt in September 2023, highlighting persistent governance and accountability failures within Nairobi’s City Hall executive.
These incidents come against the backdrop of Preident Will9am Ruto’s bid to fight graft, as his agenda rests on the Conflict of Interest Act, a Multi-Agency Team, and e-Citizen digitization aimed at eliminating finance leackage loopholes and ghost workers from public payroll.
His administration also enacted the AML/CFT Amendment Act, targeting shell companies and illicit financial flows, partly to lift Kenya off the Financial Action Task Force’s grey list designation.
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