Hungry Days Ahead For Ex-PS Lilian Omollo as High Court Goes in Hard on Her

Lilian Omollo has been on the spotlight for a better part of the year due to her perceived role in the NYS season two saga. Just hours after the DPP introduced more watertight evidence to finally lay her down together with the other suspects, the high court has come calling and this time not with good news as she could have expected.

Office of the DPP yesterday introduced a new charge sheet in relation to the case. In the new charge sheet, revelations have been made that a total of Kshs. 8 billion shillings was lost in the scam.

The High Court has therefore acted swiftly and issued orders freezing 10 bank accounts belonging to Mrs. Omollo.

The orders lasting for three months were issued on Tuesday following an application by the Assets Recovery Agency.

According to court documents, six of the accounts are held at Equity Bank while four are with Diamond Trust Bank.

“That the preservation orders shall remain in force 90 days as provided for under section 84 of Proceeds of Crime and Anti- Money Laundering Act,” reads the court order.

The court documents further show that four of the accounts are registered under the name LIDI Estates Limited, three are under Ms. Omollo’s name while the rest are registered under other names allegedly related to the former PS.

Yesterday, the office of the DPP  revealed that through video clips, flip charts and info-graphics it will demonstrate  how Omollo and 36 other suspects colluded to defraud the state of over 225 Million by facilitating illegal payments to fictitious entities.

Former Public Service PS Lillian Omollo is accused of making cash deposits of millions of shillings in bank accounts belonging to her children in months when theft of funds were reported at the National Youth Service (NYS).

The Asset Recovery Agency had revealed to court that millions of shillings, including a cash deposit of Sh20 million on or before April 20 this year were wired to the accounts registered in Mrs Omollo’s children’s names.

The deposits were made in a period when more than Sh1 billion was stolen from the NYS through fictitious invoices for goods such as firewood and stationery and multiple payments on one supplier invoice.

According to sources, the new scandal may have been made possible after the government failed to get rid of middle-level civil servants when it made changes in the ministry of Youth and the NYS in 2015.

The plundering of NYS money involved paying ghost suppliers at the expense of genuine ones and also ghost suppliers getting double payments using the Ifmis.

Lilian Omollo was charged alongside former National Youth Service Director, Mr. Richard Ndubai.

Other than Mrs Omollo and Mr Ndubai, other suspects include, Sammy Michuki, Sophy Karimi, Rodgers Nzioka, Evan Wafula Kundu, Welenalo Mulupi, Ferdinand Matano Odonyo, Christopher Malala and Sammy Mbugua Mwangi, among others.

The businesspeople implicated in the major financial scam include Anne Wanjiku Wambere Ngirita, Lucy Wambui Ngirita, Phyllis Ngirita, Simon Kanai, James Katululu, and Jeremiah Ngirita among others.

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