Top County Official set to spend the whole weekend in cold nights over graft.

The EACC in the couple of times have shown they have the powers to arrest those are violating the law and engaging in corruption cases.

They have proved that they are not intimated by those with authoeities or positions of power. A good example is the arrest of Migori Governor Okoth Obado on several occasions and letting live a normal prisoners’s life.

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) detectives on Saturday arrested Wajir County Secretary Ahmed Sahal after he was accused of involvement in graft.

The officials are also looking for the County’s Finance executive Omar Daud over misappropriation of funds.

The detectives claim that they are in possession of enough evidence to prosecute the two for engaging in fraudulent activities at the county offices.

“We have material evidence that will assist us to nail the culprits on various grounds of financial misappropriation at the county,” stated a detective.

Sahal was accused of, among other things, the over-recruiting staff at the county offices in the months of May, June and July this year.

Sahal was taken into custody at the Wajir Police Station awaiting to be moved to Nairobi.

This comes days after the sleuths at the commission raided the county’s Governor Mohamed Abdi Mohamud’s houses.

Crucial documents, including company ownership documents and financial statements, were recovered from the his two houses in Nairobi and Wajir.

He was accused of embezzling more than Ksh.350 million from his county.

The detectives also arrested the County’s head of treasury’s wife, Sonia Mworia, and accused her of destroying documents linked to the graft.

 

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