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Court jails four former Nairobi County officials for Sh18m fraud

Former Nairobi County Chief Finance Officer Jimmy Kiamba. [File, Standard]

The woes of former Nairobi County Chief Finance Officer Jimmy Kiamba deepened after he was sentenced to cumulative 15 years in jail for conspiring to defraud Sh18 million.

Justice Esther Maina ruled that Kiamba bore the greatest responsibility for using his office inappropriately during the tenure of Nairobi’s first Governor Evans Kidero to authorise illegal payments which led to loss of public funds at City Hall.

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