This archive report was first published on 22 May 2020.
On Thursday, the Anti-Corruption court in Nairobi barred Migori Governor Okoth Obado, his daughter Everlyne Odhiambo, and brother Peter Kwaga from disposing or dealing with a Sh34 million house in Loresho, Nairobi, for six months.
According to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the property might have been bought using graft proceeds. The EACC suspects that some Sh34 million drawn from Kwaga's account bought the property.
Justice Mumbi Ngugi ordered the trio not to sell, transfer, or deal with the property on LR NO 21080/38. The order is in line with Section 56 of the anti-corruption and economics crime law, which aims to preserve properties suspected of being acquired through corruption.
Obado and his family members are accused of engaging in graft and embezzling public funds through inflated or fictitious procurement contracts. The EACC claims that more than Sh2 billion was paid to companies owned by the governor's family members, including his brothers Kwaga, Patroba Ochanda, and Joram Opala, their mother Penina Auma Otago, as well as Kwaga's wife Christine Akinyi and sister-in-law Carolyne Onyango.
Everlyne Odhiambo, Obado's daughter, has been collecting rent from the contested house. The EACC's investigator, Ann Murigih, stated in her affidavit that the anti-graft body first sought to investigate the suspect's accounts at the Co-operative Bank.
