Four junior employees at the National Treasury are in hot soup following cash amounting to Sh. 177.2 million that they have had and transferred.
This money has been flagged by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission as being proceeds of corruption and kickbacks.
According to the EACC, the four employees are Robert Theuri Murage, Faith Kiptis, Esther Ngeru and Doris Simiyu. They collectively now have balances amounting to Sh. 37.3 million in both bank and M-Pesa accounts after withdrawing and transferring the remainder. This money has now been frozen through a court order.
The EACC says that Ngeru works as an internal auditor at the National Treasury. Her monthly salary is Sh. 188,000. Between January and June 2020, she received Sh. 53 million which was billed as imprests, facilitation and extraneous allowance.
Since then, she has been making withdrawals from her M-Pesa account in batches of Sh. 100,000 and Sh. 50,000. She has so been making cheque withdrawals. These withdrawals have left her with a balance of Sh. 8.5 million.
Kiptis received Sh. 79.5 million for the same reasons as Ngure and within the same period. She currently has balance of Sh. 8.7 million in her M-Pesa and another Sh. 7 million in her two bank accounts.
Simiyu received Sh. 20 million for the same reasons as Kiptis and Ngure. However, her money came in between January 2020 and June 2022. She currently has a balance of Sh. 8.9 million.
Murage received Sh. 24.7 million. She has withdrawn over half of this money and has a balance of Sh. 11 million.
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According to the EACC, the bank and M-Pesa balances of these four employees at the National Treasury are now a reflection of their salaries.
“It is reasonably suspected that the credit deposits are proceeds of crime which are public funds, which monies is amenable to forfeiture to the state,” the EACC told the court.
“Consequently, the intended civil recovery proceedings will be rendered nugatory if the funds reasonably suspected to constitute proceeds of corruption and economic crimes are allowed to dissipate.”
