EACC Secures Orders to Freeze Properties Belonging to City Hall Staff

The Ethics Anti-corruption Commission (EACC) is going after a City Hall worker on a Sh21,000-a-month salary who has accumulated vast wealth, including a three-star hotel and several plots of land.

The commission has obtained orders from the High Court to freeze 9 prime properties and 11 motor vehicles belonging to Michael Ajwang 45, a Procurement Officer at City Hall Nairobi.

Among the 9 properties targeted for forfeiture to the State include; 5 plots in Siaya, 3 in Kisumu and one plot in Utawala.

Also listed for repossession is a high-end three-star hotel, called The Hydeout Riviera Limited, situated along Kisumu-Bondo Road.

In Court documents, the anti-graft agency argued that the suspect is believed to have amassed the wealth through dubious means citing a huge discrepancy between the assets and his known sources of income.

The suspect is believed to have obtained over KES.40M in bribes from tender deals since 2014 with a monthly salary of 21,000, which amounts to a net salary of Ksh2.1M between January 2014 to June 2022.

Investigations by EACC show that the man has received at least Sh40.8 million in bribes from several companies awarded tenders by the city county and it believes that it is these proceeds of corruption that Mr Ajwang has used to acquire the properties that have been traced to his wife and his associate companies, Hydeout Riveira Ltd and Hoho Farm.

Ajwang is currently an officer in the department of Supply Chain Management at the Nairobi City County.

The case will be heard on 22nd September, 2022.