Who is the Migori Billionaire that Governor Obado is allegedly Plotting to Kill?

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It is 2019, and still Migori governor Okoth Obado cannot stay away from trouble. A Migori Billionaire and former buddy to governor has reported to the DCI that his life is in danger.

Investigators are understood to have received an anonymous letter detailing a scheme by Obado and his associates to eliminate Jared Kwaga, who had close businesses dealings with Obado. The two have had a falling out.

But who is Jared Kwaga and why would Obado want to eliminate him?

Kwaga is an underground business dealer and is believed to be the chief beneficiary of impunity at the Migori government. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has gone to court seeking various orders against Kwaga relating to millions of shillings that he allegedly wired to Obado’s children abroad

The EACC is said to believe the money is linked to fictitious contracts undertaken in Migori county. In court papers, however, the EACC paints a picture of Obado and Kwaga as inseparable.

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“Communications link analysis indicates that the governor is in constant communication with Jared Kwaga,” EACC said

It remains unclear exactly what business dealings or other issues triggered the falling out between Kwaga and Obado. However, the EACC says in court filings that Obado and his family worked with Kwaga to orchestrate a Sh2 billion theft from Migori county coffers.

“Preliminary investigations have raised reasonable suspicion that the embezzled public funds have been used by the governor, his wife and the said close proxies, the respondents herein, to accumulate property and illicit wealth,” EACC says in one filing.

The bad blood is likely to fuel efforts of the EACC, that is going flat out to put Obado at the centre of the looting. So far, the EACC has confirmed that Obado benefitted from fictitious contracts amounting to Sh38,949,376.

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This was through money wired by Kwaga to the governor’s children in bank accounts in Australia and Scotland. The governor’s beneficial children are named as Dan Ochola Okoth, Jerry Zachary Okoth and Susan Scarlet Okoth.

The anti-graft agency also froze the accounts of Obado’s wife, Hellen Adhiambo Odie.

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