Detectives from the EACC have begun the legal process of confiscating property acquired through looted money by government officials.
According top insiders from the commission , the state is looking for top four governors who have notoriously looted taxpayers money and enriched themselves.
“It is our expectation that public entities, especially county governments, will be accountable and will adhere to laid down regulations.”EACC boss said.
According to EACC, some of the four governors’ great wealth including
properties and accounts that are unexplained are registered in their family members’ names.
For example, a governor from the North Rift is said to have acquired a three-star hotel in Nairobi, estimated to cost about Sh600 million.
The governor has also invested heavily in tourist hotels in his county, and is known to be chartering planes to fly him around.
The new revelations on graft in counties comes as President Uhuru Kenyatta is to give a state of the nation address from Parliament, for which the public expects drastic action.
Another governor under probe is known to be sponsoring major political activities for one of his party leaders. He is also said to have acquired hotels in Naivasha.
A top official at EACC said the man is suspected to have stashed some of the cash in South African banks, a country he regularly visits.
Another governor from Mt Kenya region is said to have acquired a property worth millions of shillings in Nairobi, which is registered in his spouse’s name.
Investigators who have been trailing the county boss discovered that he had been depositing huge amounts of cash in his bank accounts, ranging from Sh2 million to Sh5 million regularly.
Wealthy governor
In one instance, the outspoken governor deposited about Sh10 million in a bank just a few minutes after a contractor with a tender from his county withdrew money from the same bank.
A fourth governor from western Kenya, described by detectives as one of the wealthiest county bosses, is building multi-million rental houses in a posh city location.
National Assembly Committee on Administration and National Security chair Paul Koinange (Kiambaa) regretted that graft had been a national concern and in all sectors of the public service.
He disclosed that he would be sending a number of MPs to benchmark on the success of Malaysia in fighting graft. “The MPs will travel to Malaysia to study their system and submit a report,” said Koinange.