Lilian Omollo, former youth principal secretary, has pleaded for the changes of the orders of freezing her accounts. She says she need to get some of her services and meet her bills.
Some of those services indicated in the papers filed in court are; sh.150,000 for a loan, school fees totaling sh. 5.2 million, additional school fees for three dependant totaling sh.139,800 and domestic workers salaries totaling to sh. 219,000, sh.150,000 for her elderly parents,sh.102,079 for utility bills, sh. 449,000 for servicing and maintaining vehicles, sh. 150,000 for food and sh. 210,000 for other bills.
She said that the orders put to freeze her accounts by Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) are punitive. Mr.. Ligunya, Lilian’s lawyer said ARA presented no evidence to the magistrate court which granted the freezing orders or the High Court, which extended them on August 30 and that 140 days later, the agency is yet to file any report showing how far it has gone with the investigations or what it has found.
ARA responded to her plea saying that it has all reasons to believe that the sh. 33 million was actually stolen from NYS. It has also added that Lillian has the capability of meeting her bills because she is a farmer at Siaya county.
Mohamed Adow, ARA lawyer has said that Lilian is still earning half her principal secretary salary which is about sh. 340,000 a month. He has said that more than 300 accounts are being investigated and that Lilian has not shown where ARA went wrong in getting the orders.The matter will ruled on 14th February.
Lilian accounts were freezed back last year by the high court after she was linked to NYS scandal where a lot of money was looted, billions of money. The freezed accounts were in Consolidated and Equity bank. There were seven accounts and three which belonged to her children;Sheela Mbogo, Stephanie Mbogo and Shalom Kamwetu. According to ARA the money was deposited in four accounts in Equity bank in one day.
Her bank accounts contained Ksh20.6 million while her children’s had a combined sum of Ksh12.5 million.
The freeze was authorized by justice Hedwig Ongúdi