The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has filed a case in court seeking to have assets belonging to members of the Ngirita family forfeited to the government.
In a case filed on Monday, ARA wants cars and properties held by the Ngiritas declared as proceeds of crime.
The properties the agency wants to be forfeited are held by Phyllis Ngirita, Lucy Ngirita and Jeremiah Ngirita, the key suspects in the National Youth Service (NYS) scandal.
ARA is also seeking to have assets belonging to two of their companies; Platinum Credit Limited and Opportunity International-Wedco Limited forfeited.
“It is in the interest of justice that court issues an order that the said assets belonging to the three and which are reasonably believed to be proceeds of crime be forfeited to government and transferred to ARA,” reads court documents.
The agency says it has established that the three received huge amounts of money from the NYS through their firms and personal accounts.
“Upon investigating the bank statements and documents concerning the accounts, the agency established that the three and their business entities and associates received funds fraudulently from NYS split into several transactions,” ARA further says.
ARA says Phyllis received Sh57 million in her personal account held at KCB bank while Ngiwaco Enterprises, which is owned by Lucy, received Sh109 million through their account in the same bank.
“Investigations revealed that Phyllis was paid by NYS directly to her personal account contrary to procedure. This is a clear case of fraud as there is no evidence of goods or services procured by NYS directly from Phyllis,” the agency notes.
Judge John Onyiego has directed the application be served to the Ngiritas within 14 days.
The case will be mentioned on April 15th, 2019.
ARA has also sought similar orders against NYS suspects James Thuita Nderitu, Betty Omondi as well as Flagstone Merchants Limited, Firstling Supplies, Excella Supplies Limited, Flagstone Co. Ltd, and Interscope Tech. Services.
The Ngiritas and the NYS …
The Ngiritas and the NYS (sequel) are kifumba macho. Waiguru and Kabura in NYS (original) were another kifumba macho. War on corruption is not going on and it never existed. War on corruption has been weaponized to fight the foes.
See anne waiguru playing all…
See anne waiguru playing all innocent now that she is the governor she was the puppeteer why go after the little fish let her say where she stashed the money even as governor she is still a thief who took the most
it is a good start so this…
it is a good start so this folks writing wako small fish should stop it.This ngiritas has stollen more than 70million so hio sio pocket change.Zote ziuzwe nawafungwe as we continue to get to the bigger ones.
It is about time. The war on…
It is about time. The war on corruption is just a game. The winners are the politicians who are getting away with major financial corruption. If the government is serious about corruption it should publicly name the people implicated and prosecuted. All I’ll gotten money should go back to the taxpayers.
I think if ihuru Kenyatta is…
I think if ihuru Kenyatta is serious with war on corruption then Ann Waiguru should also face the rot and she shouldn’t be the Governor , otherwise Uhuru legacy will be the only government in history that brought Kenya beyond poverty level and a thieving Nation and it will written in history books for future generations the president who was alcoholic and left his cabinet stealing all the resources enriching themselves and let the poor Kenyans suffering,