DPP Noordin Haji Now Directs His Guns At Corrupt City Hall

Fredrick Mwangi, Philomena Nzuki, Adah Onyango were arrested at the Nairobi county assembly premises on Friday, August 24, 2018. /FILE

DPP Nordin Haji has directed the DCI to arrest five Nairobi county assembly officials and a businessman over a questionable Sh997,926 tender for supply of books.

They are Clerk Jacob Ngwele, Adah Onyango (deputy clerk), Philomena Nzuki (principal accountant), James Kaguma (senior procurement officer), and Fredrick Mwangi (senior finance and planning officer).

Also to be arrested in Raphael Maluki, proprietor of Primara Ventures, the firm said to have been paid the cash for the books which were not delivered.

The said books were to be procured for the County Assembly resource centre in the 2016/2017 financial year.

“The investigations established that the said tender was never advertised and the quotations used during the process were irregularly prepared by the procurement offices,” Haji said in a statement on Friday.

Haji said investigators on June 29 established that no books were ever supplied and the money was, therefore, irregularly paid.

Nairobi county assembly principal accountant Philomena Nzuki and Clerk Jacob Ngwele before PAC on May 29, 2015. /FILE

“DCI submitted the inquiry file recommending that the six suspects be charged with various economic crimes,” he said.

The Director of Criminal Investigations has been investigating multiple cases of financial malpractice at the Nairobi assembly.

Three Officials Arrested

Three Nairobi City county assembly officers have been arrested for conspiring to defraud the county of Sh997,926.

Fredrick Mwangi (Senior Finance and Planning Officer), Philomena Nzuki (Principal Accountant), Adah Onyango (Deputy Clerk) were arrested at the assembly premises.

Police are still looking for three others namely James Kaguma (senior procurement officer), Clerk Jacob Ngwele, and Raphael Maluki – proprietor of Primara Ventures.

Earlier, DPP Nordin Haji directed the DCI to arrest the six over a questionable Sh997,926 tender for supply of books.

Primara Ventures is said to be the firm said to have been paid the cash for the books which were not delivered.

The said books were to be procured for the County Assembly resource centre in the 2016/2017 financial year.

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