Embattled Migori governor Okoth Obado has dragged his three children into the fire line and could even see them arrested.
EACC has accused the governor of using proxies among them his relatives to siphon Sh2 billion from the coffers of the county government.
According to the commission, the governor benefited from the fictitious contracts to the tune of Sh38,949,376.
This was through money wired to his children in various accounts held at banks in Australia and Scotland.
The governor’s beneficial children are named as Dan Ochola Okoth, Jerry Zachary Okoth and Susan Scarlet Okoth.
EACC now wants seven of the governor’s alleged proxies and 14 of their firms that benefited from multi-billion contracts compelled to refund Sh2 billion allegedly looted from the Migori county government.
On Tuesday, the High Court issued orders barring the owners from selling or transferring 65 properties — including maissionettes, apartments and land — all valued at over Sh382 million.
The High Court restrained the owners and interested parties or their agents from “transferring, charging, disposing, wasting or any other way alienating the properties.”
Previously seen as toothless bulldog but now determined to bite the big fish, the EACC says the suspects should be forced to refund Sh1,971,179,180 obtained from Migori county and forfeit to the government the 65 properties frozen by the court.
EACC also wants the Court to order that interest at court rates be paid on the sum from the date of filing the suit until payment in full.
EACC has named Peter Odoyo Oluoch Kwaga, a close Obado associate, as the architect of the theft who roped in six members of his family including his mother.
Of the 65 properties the High Court put a caveat on, 42 belong to Kwaga excluding 17 he transferred after sleuths raided his home early this year.
The properties include four maissionettes in Nairobi, an apartment in Nairobi and several tracks of land mostly in Migori town.
“The Commission has established that in just four days after it carried out search on the 1st defendant’s [Kwaga] residence, he transferred 17 parcels out of the 59 parcels registered in his name to the interested parties herein,” EACC says.
The parcels were transferred to Yuda Otago, Clement Nguka, Julita Atieno Okoko, Dora Atieno Owino and Tabitha Achieng Odhiambo.