How Governor Waititu, Wife and Daughter Suspiciously Received Millions in Their Bank Accounts

Details of how Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu and some members of his family received millions of shillings in their bank accounts have been revealed.

In documents filed in court, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) said the funds were received from a company that was awarded a lucrative tender by the County government of Kiambu.

The agency said the millions wired to companies associated with Waititu and his kin are suspected to be kickbacks from the contractor.

In an affidavit, EACC officer Regina Ng’ang’a said that investigators established that the said accounts received more than Sh30 million from the contractor.

Part of the cash was wired into an account registered under Saika Two Estate Developers, a company owned by Waititu and his daughter Monica Njeri.

Other funds were channeled into Bienvenue Delta Hotel belonging to Waititu and his wife Susan Wangari as well as Connex Logistics Africa, which is owned by his spouse. 

EACC said the funds were received from Testimony Enterprise, a firm that won a tender for the upgrade of eight gravel roads to bituminous standard using soil stabilization technology in 2018.

The contract awarded by the Kiambu County government was worth Sh588 million. 

18 days after the contract was signed, the company opened a bank account with a local bank, which raised questions on the existence of the firm before the award of the tender. 

Detectives found out that the same company wired a total of Sh25.4 million to Waititu's Saika Two Developers on diverse dates.

On the other hand, Bienvenue Delta Hotel Ltd, where Waititu and his wife are co-directors, received a total of Sh5.2 million. 

“Testimony Enterprise Ltd has so far been irregularly paid quite a substantial amount of money without raising certificates required to quantify the work."

The money paid was thereafter transferred to either the Testimony directors’ accounts and later to the governor’s account, his wife, daughter, and companies associated with the governor,” reads part of the affidavit. 

When questioned, Waititu said the payment was for a parcel of land and fuel he had supplied to Charles Chege, the owner of Testimony Enterprise.

Waititu was arrested last week in connection with the suspicious contract and was released after a Kiambu court granted him an anticipatory bail of Sh500,000.