Three people arrested over irregular payments of Ksh214 million by the Kenya Ports Authority-KPA will be arraigned at the Anti- Corruption Magistrate’s Court in Mombasa Monday.
Patrick Nyoike was arrested alongside his wife, Jacinta Wambugu and KPA clerical officer Issack Obunga after the Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji approved their charges and ordered for their arrest Sunday Morning.
Through a statement, DPP Haji said that the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC) detectives had been investigating how KPA made payments amounting to Ksh 214, 548, 340 million to Nyali Capital Limited between October 2014 and March 2017.
“Patrick Wambugu Nyoike had interests in Nyali Capital Limited where his wife Jacinta Wanjiku Wambugu and brother Alfred Hinga Nyoike worked as General Manager and Director respectively,” said DPP Haji.
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Investigators unearthed the multi-million scandal where Nyoike is said to have used his office to confer the funds to Nyali Capital Limited, a microfinance company in which his wife is a general manager and his brother a director.
Nyoike is said to have facilitated the company to finance KPA suppliers, Local Purchase Orders and Local Service Orders and thereafter utilized the KPA system to have the principal and the interest from the said suppliers remitted by KPA to Nyali Capital Limited’s account.
