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Graft case against Obado, his children proceeds
The fraud case against former Migori Governor Zachary Okoth Obado
The fraud case against former Migori Governor Zachary Okoth Obado was today adjourned to tomorrow after it appeared that the prosecution had not supplied key prosecution documents to the defence.
The former Migori boss appeared before Magistrate Victor Wakhumile at Milimani Anti-Corruption Court for the hearing of Ksh1.98B corruption case.
In the case, Obado is charged alongside 15 other accused persons including his four children over the alleged theft of public funds and conflict of interest in Migori County Government when Obado was the Governor.
According to Ethics Anti-Corruption Commission, 59 witnesses have been lined up to testify before the court in a bid to prove the case against the accused persons.
EACC undertook investigations in the case after receiving allegations that Migori County Government had made suspicious payments to multiple companies, totalling Ksh.1.98 billion.
However, after investigations, most payments were found to have been lawfully made in respect to executed contracts whose works were confirmed in a verification exercise while payments amounting to Ksh.235 million remained unexplained thus deemed to have been fraudulently acquired from the County Government.
The unexplained amount, which the Commission found to be proceeds of corruption, including kickbacks directly sent by some companies to foreign universities as school fees for Obado’s children as well as high-end properties purchased for the family by the said contractors, have since been recovered through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), following a civil recovery suit filed at the High Court.
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