{"id":146393,"date":"2026-07-10T15:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ng-cdf-official-contractor-convicted-in-ksh19-million-tender-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:02:50","slug":"ng-cdf-official-contractor-convicted-in-ksh19-million-tender-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ng-cdf-official-contractor-convicted-in-ksh19-million-tender-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"NG-CDF Official, Contractor Convicted in Ksh19 Million Tender Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Jul 10 \u2013 Malindi court has found a senior National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) official and a private contractor guilty over procurement irregularities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Malindi Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court convicted Wachu Omar Abdallah, the NG-CDF Malindi Fund Account Manager, for unlawfully awarding a Ksh19 million contract for the construction of the Malindi Sub-County Education Office Block without complying with procurement requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The court also convicted a director of Multserve Contractors Limited, for forging tender documents, including academic and financial records, before submitting them to secure the contract.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Magistrate John N. Muniu ruled that the prosecution had presented compelling evidence through more than 10 witnesses and found the defence case lacked merit.<\/p>\n<p>Abdallah was fined Ksh400,000 or face a six-year jail term, while Wanje was fined Ksh200,000 on each of four counts or serve concurrent two-year prison terms in default.<\/p>\n<p>The court allowed both convicts 14 days to file appeals against the judgment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Jul 10 \u2013 Malindi court has found a senior National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) official and a private contractor guilty over procurement irregularities. The Malindi Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court convicted Wachu Omar Abdallah, the NG-CDF Malindi Fund Account Manager, for unlawfully awarding a Ksh19 million contract for the construction of the Malindi Sub-County [&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-146393","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\/146393","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=146393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}