This archive report was first published on 25 July 2019.
On July 25, 2019, Lady Justice Hedwig Ong'udi ruled that Jimmy Kiamba, the former Nairobi County Chief Finance Officer, could not explain how he acquired his massive wealth, which the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) said was looted from the county coffers.
Justice Ong'udi's decision spelt doom for a man who used to earn Sh145,000 a month, but ended up amassing properties and cash deposits in bank accounts worth over Sh1 billion within a period of three years.
“My analysis of evidence proves that the EACC has established that the huge cash deposits in his accounts were proceeds of economic crimes and constitute unexplained assets which must be forfeited to the state,” the judge ruled.
The judge also allowed the Government to take over Kiamba's palatial home in Runda estate if he fails to pay Sh35 million he used to buy the land.
According to the EACC, Kiamba's salary between 2009 and 2015 totalled to Sh5.8 million, and they wondered how he ended up with over Sh1 billion in cash and assets during his tenure as CFO between 2013 and 2015.
Among the properties the anti-graft body claimed Kiamba acquired through corruption were two maisonettes in Nairobi's South C estate, several apartments spread across the city, a town house in Kileleshwa and parcels of land in Nairobi, Kajiado and Machakos.
