The high court has frozen accounts belonging to two government employees over corruption allegations. High court judge justice alnasir visram also barred the two from selling, leasing or transferring land or other property, which the kenya anti-corruption commission suspects were obtained illegally. In the first case, mr stanley muombo amuti, the financial controller with the national water conservation and pipeline corporation, is accused of allegedly acquired property worth millions of shillings through corrupt means. The commission’s investigators say mr amuti, whose monthly net salary is sh180,031, deposited into his various bank accounts sh140 million excluding his salary. A search warrant for mr amuti’s home and office revealed huge sums of money and documents of property including houses, vehicles and land. In the second case, mr patrick ochieno abachi, an agriculture ministry employee, is accused of acquiring property valued at about sh80 million. The official, says the watchdog, had amassed a lot of property, which is “disproportionate to the emoluments he is expected to have earned as a public officer.” mr abachi, is the ministry’s chief accountant and earns a gross salary of sh53,900 per month.
daily nation*- officials bank account frozen