ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has revoked the appointment of Jared Odoyo Kwaga as a member of Kenya Institute of Mass Communication Council.
CS Joe Mucheru revokes the appointment of Peter Odoyo Kwaga as a member of Kenya Institute of Mass Communication Council.
— Ali ‘Mwamvita’ Manzu (@Ali_Manzu) February 11, 2019
Kwaga had been appointed to the board of Kenya Institute of Mass Communication in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s latest appointments.
Kwaga is a close associate of Migori Governor Okoth Obado. His assets were frozen by the High Court after the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission filed a Sh1.9 billion recovery suit against him and six relatives. They include his mother and wife.
The EACC says Kwaga and his relatives registered several companies to fraudulently acquire public funds through unmerited high-value tenders — some fictitious.
The agency in court papers says Kwaga, in a bid to conceal funds corruptly acquired through fictitious tenders, transferred Sh55,224,977 to offshore accounts in China and Hong Kong.
The Constitution bars public officers from opening or operating bank accounts outside Kenya without approval from the EACC.
The state has also made it mandatory that job seekers get clearance from the EACC and a letter of good conduct from the DCI. It sometimes requests for a secret dossier from the National Intelligence Service. It is however not clear whether Kwaga was cleared by the agencies.