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EACC is pursuing Mwangi Wa Iria and five other suspects after they failed to honour their summons to appear at the EACC headquarters on Wednesday morning. 

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) detectives have arrested former Murang’a Governor Mwangi Wa Iria’s wife Jane Waigwe Kimani and her brother Solomon Mutura Kimani in connection to a Sh 140 million graft case.

In a statement on Wednesday, April 17, EACC said the two have been taken before the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court for plea-taking in the graft case where publicity tenders were awarded to Image Media Consultancy Ltd and Value View Limited by the Murang’a County government between 2014 and 2016.

“The wife of former Murang’a Governor Mwangi Wa Iria Jane Waigwe Kimani and her brother Solomon Mutura Kimani, both suspects in the Kes.140 million Murang’a County graft case, have been arrested.

“The two are currently before the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court for plea-taking. They are the Directors of Value View Ltd, one of the companies used as a conduit in the fraudulent scheme,” read the statement in part.

EACC noted that it is pursuing Wa Iria and five other suspects in the graft case after they failed to honor summons to appear at the EACC headquarters in Nairobi.

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File image of EACC headquarters in Nairobi.

“EACC is pursuing the other 6 suspects, including the former Governor, who failed to honour summons to appear before it on Wednesday, 8 am,” EACC added.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) on Saturday last week recommended the former Murang’a county boss and seven former county officials to be charged with procurement irregularities of Sh 140 Million.

The ODPP recommended Wa Iria and his co-accused be charged with Conspiracy to commit an offense of corruption contrary to section 47A (3) as read with section 48 of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act (ACECA), abuse of office, and unlawful acquisition of public property Contrary to Section 45 of the ACECA.

Other charges leveled against the nine suspects include; conflict of interest contrary to Section 42(3) as read with Section 48 of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act 2003, dealing with suspect property Contrary to Section 47(1) and 47(2) (a) and Money Laundering contrary to Section 3 as read with Section 16 of the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act.