A receptionist who owns property worth millions of shillings is among 20 National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) officials whose warrants of arrest have been issued over grand corruption at the agency.
The Star reports that 39-year-old Fredrick Sagwe Onyancha, a receptionist at NHIF, owns eight houses worth Sh160 million. Sagwe is said to have acquired the property at an upmarket estate in Athi River between 2013 and 2017.
Investigators established that the Onyancha’s lifestyle drastically changed immediately after joining NHIF tender evaluation committee that is mandated with issuing tenders at the State insurance company.
Sagwe first acquired four houses worth Sh20 million each in 2013 as well as high-end cars including Range Rovers and Toyota V8s.
He further spent a whooping Sh40 million to spruce his house located in Green Park estate along Mombasa Road. The mansion was recently featured in Ideal Space, a property program aired on KTN TV, where his wife explained the expensive fittings in their home.
Ragwe also runs a chain of carpet-cleaning businesses across Nairobi whose value is estimated at Sh50 million. The businesses are managed by his wife.
Further, the receptionist’s three sons school at expensive international institutions in Nairobi.
The Star reports that Ragwe grew up at a relative’s home in Nairobi’s Umoja estate before joining Nakuru High School. He later joined United States International University (USIU) where he graduated in 2007 before being hired as a front desk officer at NHIF on a salary of Sh50,000 per month.
He currently pockets Sh150,000 a month, but he leads a lavish lifestyle that isn’t commensurate with what he earns.
“He is a very polite person who sometimes tries to look like a modest man by driving a small car,” detectives who have been trailing him for months say.
The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has moved to court to seek orders to seize the houses and other properties.
If this was a salary, this…
If this was a salary, this guy would be earning enough to pay Uhuruto basic pay and still keep some change of ksh 95,000!
How about his bosses? how about the people pulling the strings behind the curtains?
It is by magic or miracle that some of these institutions are still standing. No wonder our appetite for loans is increasing exponentially to fill in the gaping holes in our budgets. We need to only dream about new loans and awake to austerity measures to address our debt burden, and wastage much of which is incurred from corrupt practices and scandals.
Sad when Kenyan hospitals…
Sad when Kenyan hospitals have turned into prisons detaining patients when they cannot foot the bill.Yet this thugs are stealing and enriching themselves
Worse still: It’s Shameful;…
Worse still: It’s Shameful; very SHAMEFUL!!!???
Stealing as usual. There are…
Stealing as usual. There are millions like him. We need more investigators and more prisons if we are going to make a dent of this heinous crimes.
The problem is not the man…
The problem is not the man. The problem is the system. Going after him is like the cat chasing its tail.
This is just but a headline…
This is just but a headline,tommorow something new crops up and the thief continues with life as usual or be arrested and granted 100,000/= bail THIS IS KENYA
What else is new. People…
What else is new. People stealing then showing off?
Where is dirty Diana’s…
Where is dirty Diana’s bashful comments? Or is her beef only with two tribes?
The DCI & ODPP should…
The DCI & ODPP should intensify this investigation further to various city in particular to Mombasa. I know several forks who works in different parastatal & Government offices have declared themselves as self made millionaires…from rugs to Riches. Now its for real they hard work comes from the public coffers since mid 2000.
Please can you give each…
Please can you give each Kenyan Shs 1,000,000 and we’ll all be millionaires, and you’ll still have much left for yourself???
I have read too many headlines with thieves involved.Freeze their money and give it to the non millionares and aybe, just maybe we can quench the fire of stealing!