EACC freeze Sh18million belonging to National Treasury employee
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has frozen Sh18 million belonging to a Treasury junior officer.
This is after the commission obtained an order to freeze the money Tracy Njoki King’e’s various accounts, pending the conclusion of investigations.
Njoki, a finance officer at the National Treasury, allegedly siphoned Sh37 million from her employer through factitious impresses, and used part of it to purchase Treasury Bills.
“That an order is hereby issued prohibiting the respondent, her agents, servants, or any other persons from withdrawing, transferring, disposing or in any other way dealing with the funds in the banks described herein under to facilitate the commission to complete its investigations before instituting recovery proceedings,” Justice Esther Maina ruled.
EACC investigator Dorothy Nanjala told the court that out of Sh24 million received through her first bank account, Sh4.6 million was used to purchase Treasury Bills while Sh2.7 million is the balance in the account.
The commission believes the money, held in two accounts, was obtained in the form of “extraneous and facilitation allowances’’.
According to EACC, Njoki joined her current work station in January 2020 from the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Cooperatives where she had been since 2018.
Her average monthly salary was Sh50,954 between March 2020 and May 2022 which amounted to approximately Sh1.35 million.
However, during the same period, the commission established that she received Sh37 million disguised as extraneous and facilitation allowances.
The commission further claims that Njoki received Sh24 million between February 2020 and March 2022, as in her Cooperative Bank account, and between February and June 2022, she received Sh11.8 million through her I&M bank account.
EACC’s investigations established that out of the Sh11.8 million received through the I&M Bank account, Sh11 million was transferred to her fixed deposit accounts in the same bank while Sh498,000 was withdrawn in cash leaving a balance of Sh400,000.
