EACC probes top port manager over Sh241 million

Top KPA officials in an inspection tour of the Port of Mombasa’s Berth 12 following the off-loading of four newly acquired Rail Mounted Gantry (RMG) cranes in July. [File, Standard]

Panic has gripped the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) after anti-graft detectives raided the house of a top manager under probe over alleged siphoning of hundreds of millions of shillings from the authority to a private company.

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) said they were probing claims that colossal sums of money running into Sh241 million were moved from KPA’s accounts to firms run by people close to Patrick Wambugu Nyoike, being payment for unknown purposes.