Former Nairobi County finance minister Jimmy Kiamba risks forfeiting his Runda house to the state should he fail to pay the government Sh317 million.
The anti-corruption court ordered him to pay the sum after ruling that Mr Kiamba is in possession of unexplained assets.
“I therefore declare that the total sum of the money indicated to be unexplained assets,” the court ruled.
High Court judge Hedwig Ogundi ruled that the EACC established a case against Mr Kiamba.
According to the judgment, Mr Kiamba will pay the government Sh35 million in default or the property situated in Runda Water Estate will be forfeited to the government.
He will also pay the government another Sh282,648,604 million.
The court ruled that it was convinced from the totality of the evidence produced in court of the state’s suspicion of corruption or economic crimes committed by Mr Kiamba.
According to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), after probing Mr Kiamba’s accounts, they deduced that fraud was at play.
EACC Investigating Officer James Kariuki testified that Mr Kiamba used a driver attached to him as well as a security guard to make questionable deposits into his bank account.
EACC sought the forfeiture of Kiambaa assets worth Sh872 million which it considered unexplained and whose value it argued is disproportionate to Kiambaa legitimate sources of income.
In his defense, Mr Kiamba said that he owned several businesses apart from his employment.
He said that he had engaged in farming, hotel business, transport, rental income, water business, while interior design and beauty parlor businesses were his wife’s.
