EACC arrests two Nairobi City County officers for bribery
17:04:2024: EACC has today arrested two officers of the Nairobi City County for asking and receiving a bribe.
Jazzy Kemunto Osoro, Embakasi East Sub-County Administrator, and Absalom Peter Ochieng Ayany, a Compliance and Enforcement Officer were nabbed in varied locations in the City and taken to the Commission’s Police Station at Integrity Centre for processing and arraignment.
A complaint was made to the Commission on 15th this month that the two demanded for a bribe of Kes300,000, and received part of it to facilitate the complainant to put up a container on a road reserve near the complainant’s plot in Embakasi area.
Investigations established that the two had asked Kes300,000 as facilitation fee on 11th March of this year. After negotiations, they agreed to take Kes100,000 as advance payment, which would also earn the complainant an authorization letter. On the same day, the complainant sent the money to the compliance officer via M-pesa in two batches of Kes51,000 and Kes49,000. The complainant later sent to the same officer via M-pesa additional Kes60,000.
He was issued with a receipt of Kes40,000 dated 12th March 2024. The Complainant erected a container on the road reserve on the same day. On 13h March, however, hardly a day after the complainant had put up the container, Jazzy Kemunto, the Ward Administrator ordered him to remove the container or pay additional Kes140,000. The Complainant, not being able to comply, was forced to relocate the container. The following day, the Compliance Officer called the compliant asking to be added Kes10,000 for the authorization letter. It is at this point that the complainant became suspicious of the integrity of the two and reported to EACC.
In just a span of 4 days, the two public officers had swindled the complainant a total of Kes160,000, even as they ensured that the container was not erected on the road reserve.
On 15th April 2024, investigators asked the complainant to revive negotiations with the two. Mr. Ayany, the Compliance Officer insisted on being sent the Kes10,000 through M-pesa. The complainant complied. Mr Ayany later issued the authorization letter dated 16th March 2024 with a receipt for Kes40, 000. A QR code scan however revealed the receipt was for Kes4,000, confirming that the receipt was a forgery.
The two will be arraigned tomorrow on two charges of asking for a bribe of Kes300,000 and receiving a bribe of Kes170,000.
