High Court clears EACC to arrest NGAAF CEO over corruption allegations
High Court clears EACC to arrest NGAAF CEO over corruption allegations
The High Court has allowed the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to arrest and prosecute NGAAF Chief Executive Officer Roy Sasaka Telewa after dismissing his petition challenging ongoing investigations into alleged corruption.
In a ruling delivered at the Milimani High Court, Justice Bahati Mwamuye threw out Telewa’s petition, terming it an abuse of the court process occasioned by ‘forum shopping’.
The NGAAF CEO had previously obtained temporary court orders blocking his arrest by the anti-graft agency with the latest ruling lifting the initial interim orders, allowing the EACC to arrest, detain, charge, or prosecute him according to the law.
Telewa moved to court on January 13, 2026, alleging that the EACC violated his constitutional rights during investigations he described as malicious, oppressive and aimed at pushing him out of office through the criminal justice system.
The petition arose from EACC investigations into allegations of corruption, procurement irregularities, and unexplained wealth covering the period between January 2021 and January 2026.
During this time, Telewa served in several senior public positions, including CEO of NGAAF, former CEO of the National Youth Council, Head of Procurement at the Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC), and Deputy Head of Procurement at the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK).
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On January 14, 2026, the court granted interim orders restraining the EACC from arresting or prosecuting the CEO pending further directions, though it allowed investigations to continue. The EACC opposed the petition, dismissing claims of constitutional violations and maintaining that it was lawfully exercising its mandate.
The commission subsequently filed an application on January 23, 2026, seeking to strike out the petition on grounds that it duplicated an earlier case filed by Telewa before the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Division. The earlier petition had sought similar reliefs but was dismissed on January 13, 2026.
Following that setback, Telewa filed the present petition at the Constitutional and Human Rights Division on the same day, obtaining interim orders similar to those denied by the ACEC court. He later withdrew the ACEC petition after securing the favourable orders from the Constitutional Court.
In dismissing the case, Justice Mwamuye faulted Telewa for failing to disclose the existence of the earlier ACEC petition, noting that the two filings were ‘almost word for word’ identical. The court held that the non-disclosure and parallel filings amounted to forum shopping and a clear abuse of the judicial process.
The judge consequently dismissed the petition and declared that all interim orders previously granted had been extinguished, paving the way for the EACC to proceed with arrests and prosecutions as it deems fit.
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