In a damning report, EACC has revealed how a civil servant at Matiang’i’s interior Ministry managed to deposit money amounting to Sh1 million for seven months straight!
The Harambee House staffer, Mr Thomas Gitau Njogu is said to have deposited the monies in his accounts, that of his wife (Teresia Njeri) and several other companies during the period.
A local publication reported that the deposits were made between January 2017 and July of the same year where they received a cumulative Ksh115 Million in their accounts.
The amount was not adding up to the official’s salary which totals to Ksh1.8 Million for 19 months.
During a raid conducted in 2017 in Harambee House, EACC officials recovered Ksh6.9 Million in Gitau’s office and Ksh1.2 Million at his house in Marurui Estate.
In their documents, the EACC sleuths stated that the amounts were proceeds of crime as he engaged in misappropriation of taxpayers’ money.
The body claimed that he siphoned money as he accessed petty cash from the Ministry illegally.
Njongu’s multi-million properties in Nairobi’s Thome estate, Kitengela and Kabete risk possession by the government.