This archive report was first published on 15 October 2019.
Angela Angwenyi, a former radio presenter, is facing the loss of her home in Jacaranda Gardens estate in Nairobi after she fell into financial difficulties.
The apartment was put up for auction by Garam Auctioneers on Monday, with a notice stating that the property is located along Kamiti Road, just after the Northern bypass.
Angwenyi's financial woes are linked to the National Youth Service scandal, in which her company, Out of the Box Solutions Limited, won a Sh302 million consultancy contract to publicise tenders for women and the youth.
The contract, which did not specify the obligations for the parties, raised doubts on whether advertisements actually ran as stipulated.
Out of the Box Solutions Limited was awarded the contract to carry out a campaign to enhance access to the 30 percent of government tenders reserved for women, the youth, and people living with disabilities.
Although Angwenyi and her business partner, Antony Lungaho, appeared before Parliament to answer queries, neither has been charged in court in connection with the NYS case.
Many individuals linked to the scandal are facing financial difficulties, with some losing their business incomes, being hounded out of office, and having their bank accounts frozen and assets seized.
Among those affected is former Youth Affairs and Gender principal secretary Lillian Omollo, whose seven bank accounts with Sh20.6 million were frozen, along with those of her children.
The rise in prosecutions of graft-related cases has led to the recovery of assets worth Sh3.8 billion in the year to June 2018, up from Sh300 million a year earlier.
