EACC Granted Orders To Freeze Nairobi City Council Officer’s Sh537 Million Unexplained Wealth

NAIROBI Kenya May 25 -The High Court has granted the anti-graft body orders freezing unexplained wealth valued at Sh537 Million belonging to a junior procurement officer with the Nairobi City County Government.

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) were on Thursday May 25 granted the orders to freeze Michael  Auka Ajwang’s property who earns a net monthly salary of Sh21,000.

The EACC said the officer amassed the Sh537 million unexplained wealth between January 2014 and June 2022 whereas in this period of interest, the total income from his legitimately known sources was only Sh2.12 million only.

The assets frozen are 9 landed properties including a 3-star hotel located on Kisumu-Bondo Road and 10 high-end motor vehicles.

The EACC wants all the assets forfeited to the Government for being proceeds of corruption and economic crime. Some of the assets have been traced to his wife and his associate companies.

This case started in August 2022 when EACC received a report that Ajwang’s accumulated wealth and living standards were not proportional to his known sources of income.

Investigations established that during the period of interest, Ajwang routinely received huge amounts of money in his bank accounts from several companies awarded tenders by Nairobi City County Government.

Consequently, the EACC issued a statutory notice to Ajwang requiring him to account for the disparity between his wealth and his known legitimate source of income, which he was unable to do.