The high court is this morning expected to issue directions in a case in which the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission is seeking to recover over Sh233 million from a senior supply chains director at the Ministry of Transport.
The matter has been listed before Justice Esther Maina.
The anti-graft agency filed the case in August 2022 claiming that David Kinyae Isika fraudulently acquired Sh233,486,767 in tenders awarded to companies owned by his son, wife and himself by the ministries he worked under.
The tenders were awarded to three companies by the State Department for Housing and Urban Development under the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development and Public Works and the Nairobi Metropolitan Development within the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development.
EACC claims Kinyae worked in various capacities at the ministries including as senior deputy director of supply chain management between 2014 and 2021.
"Being a public officer, Kinyae knowingly held private interest in the transactions by companies with the ministries he worked with which private interest was in conflict with his public office," EACC said.
In documents before the court, EACC claimed Wanga-Tech General Enterprises Limited received contracts amounting to Sh75,877,074.35, Davinka Suppliers and General Merchants Limited got Sh102,175,003 while Bruce Isika Kinyae T/A Brycen Smart Innovations received Sh55,434,690 worth of contracts.
The commission said its investigations found that Kinyae is listed as one of the directors and shareholders of Davinka Suppliers up to April 21, 2021, alongside his nephew, Urbanus Kioko Mbithi, and close associates named Stanley Musembi and Peter Wambugu.
