This archive report was first published on 30 July 2019.
On July 30, 2019, Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu was granted bail of 15 million shillings and restricted from accessing his Kiambu County office pending determination of a 588 million shillings graft case.
Waititu, his wife Susan Wangari Ndung'u, and eight other suspects were charged over an irregularly awarded 588 million shillings tender to a firm linked to the governor.
On Monday, the governor and his wife denied six counts of irregular procurement of a tender awarded to a company for the upgrading of various roads in the county.
They appeared before Chief Magistrate Lawrence Mugambi alongside the County Chief Officer for Roads, Lukas Wahinya, five members of the Kiambu County Tender Evaluation Committee, and two directors of Testimony Enterprises Limited.
According to the charge sheet, it is alleged that between July 2, 2018, and March 13, 2019, the governor received Ksh 25,624,500 from Testimony Enterprises Limited, a company heavily linked to the governor.
