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Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu (centre) with EACC officials after he was arrested over corruption allegations on May 23, 2019. [Beverlyne Musili/Standard]
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has tabled potentially damning evidence in a bid to prove that Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu used money from a kickback paid by a contractor to partly pay for a hotel he bought in Nairobi’s prime University Way, in a blatant show of how governors and their cronies are looting counties.
A trail of bank transfers released by EACC and presented in court is aimed at revealing that the company that sold Waititu the Delta Hotel, known as Lake Naivasha Resort received Sh6 million from a road contractor who was awarded the tender under alleged influence of the governor.
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