Court freezes Ksh.48 million belonging to Nairobi County employee who earns Ksh.55K salary

Lady Justice Esther Maina granted the orders on Tuesday to allow the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) complete investigations into claims that Wilson Nashon Kanani through his office received bribes and kickbacks thereby accumulating the money as well as other assets among them two high-end motor vehicles.

“The court has prohibited him (Wilson), his agents and servants from withdrawing, transferring, disposing, wasting and/or in any other way dealing with funds held in his various bank accounts and from transferring, disposing, wasting and/or in any other way dealing with two high-end motor vehicles,” stated the judge.

According to court documents, although the employee earns a net monthly salary of Ksh.55,000 he received and channeled Kshs. 506 million through bank accounts held in his name and family members between January 2016 and October 2022.

Investigations established that Kanani's duties at the county include regulation of outdoor advertisements, monitoring and surveillance of all outdoor advertisements and calling advertisers to comply with approvals and payments for advertisements. 

“Although he earns a monthly net salary of Kshs. 55,000/-, investigations have revealed that between January 2016 and October 2022, he received and channeled monies suspected to have been received through corruption amounting to Kshs. 506,397,460.71/- through bank accounts in his name, the name of companies associated with him, his family members including his spouse and his minor children,” reads court documents.

Other assets linked to the accused include a house in Phenom Estate Langata, a residential house and rental premises in Busia, an apartment in Langata NHC and an apartment in Kahawa which are all suspected to have been acquired using proceeds of corruption.

“He is associated with five companies Wilman Auto Invests, Wilman Auto Invests (Logistics), Willy Walla International Limited, Wilcoreg Limited and Regineez Enterprises Limited which are reasonably suspected to have traded with the Nairobi City County Government,” the court was told.