{"id":110322,"date":"2025-02-12T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/waititu-wife-susan-guilty-of-corruption-in-sh588mn-tender-fraud\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:03:42","slug":"waititu-wife-susan-guilty-of-corruption-in-sh588mn-tender-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/waititu-wife-susan-guilty-of-corruption-in-sh588mn-tender-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Waititu, wife Susan guilty of corruption in Sh588mn tender fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 12<\/strong> <strong>\u2013 A Nairobi court has convicted former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu and his wife, Susan Wangari, of corruption in connection with kickbacks linked to a Sh588 million tender.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chief Magistrate Thomas Nzioki declared the tender fraudulent, noting that it lacked the necessary documentation and that the awarded company, Testimony Enterprises Limited, did not have the capacity to execute the road project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no doubt in my mind that the contract is a fraud. It is a mockery of the law,\u201d Magistrate Nzioki said.<\/p>\n<p>The court found Waititu guilty of conflict of interest for acquiring an indirect personal interest in over Sh25.6 million from Testimony Enterprises Limited, which he funneled through his company and business name during his tenure as governor.<\/p>\n<p>Nzioki ruled that the prosecution had sufficiently established the offense, describing the case as a \u201cclassic example of conflict of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court dismissed Waititu\u2019s defense of political witch-hunt, with the trial magistrate emphasizing that \u201cnumbers and figures don\u2019t lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Money laundering charge dropped<\/h2>\n<p>However, Nzioki acquitted them of three counts related to money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith regards to those offenses as charged, I find the accused persons guilty as charged,\u201d Chief Magistrate Nzioki ruled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inevitable conclusion is that the first accused person is liable in count number one for conflict of interest by acquiring an indirect personal interest amounting to Sh25 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also found guilty were businessman Charles Chege, his wife Beth Wangechi, and former Kiambu County Roads Chief Officer Engineer Luka Mwangi.<\/p>\n<p>The cout found Engineer Mwangi, named as the main culprit, to have altered the tender evaluation process by removing key criteria, thereby violating the Constitution and disadvantaging four other bidders.<\/p>\n<p>He played a central role in ensuring the tender award to Testimony Enterprises Limited\u2014an unqualified firm whose director, the fourth accused, was an acquaintance of the governor.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 12 \u2013 A Nairobi court has convicted former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu and his wife, Susan Wangari, of corruption in connection with kickbacks linked to a Sh588 million tender. Chief Magistrate Thomas Nzioki declared the tender fraudulent, noting that it lacked the necessary documentation and that the awarded company, Testimony Enterprises Limited, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}