The Assets recovery agency has secured orders freezing eleven properties belonging to businesswoman Mathee Wa Ngara.
The assets are in the Juja-Kalimoni area and Vihiga county. They are registered in the names of Nancy Kigunzu aka Mathee Wa Ngara and her alleged close allies George Jumba, Judith Makungu, Brince Sande and Benard Avesa (respondents)
Justice Benjamin Musyoki, in issuing the order, directed them to surrender the title documents of the said properties. He also issued an order directing the Chief Land Registrar to register a caveat against the records of the listed properties.
Mathee Wa Ngara was arrested in August in an apartment in Juja and subsequently charged in court with trafficking narcotic drugs. At the time of arrest, one David Okoth was cleaning a Toyota Sienta which was believed to have delivered a consignment of narcotic drugs to Mathee Wa Ngara. Before this, she had been charged with other offences of drug trafficking at the JKIA court.
The Agency told the judge that they conducted a search in the Juja apartment where she was arrested and were able to recover several items.
Some of the items are listed as six sacks of dry plant material suspected to be narcotic drugs in the sitting area, a weighing scale, a brown diary, assorted empty sacks, and title deeds.
The agency said their probe established that Mathee Wa Ngara acquired massive assets using the proceeds from the illegitimate trade in narcotic drugs and registered under her name and the names of her proxies so as to conceal and disguise the source of funds used to procure the said assets.
"She devised a complex criminal mechanism of acquiring, trafficking, distributing, and selling the drugs and registered the assets she acquired from the illicit trade through her close relative and mules," said the Agency.
The judge, in preserving the assets pending the forfeiture application by the Agency also said that any rental income accruing from the Juja apartments be deposited in the Agency's account held at Kenya Commercial Bank.
He also issued an order prohibiting the sale and transfer of two motor vehicles registered in Mathee Wa Ngara's name and another in Jumba's name.
The respondents are to surrender their original logbooks and surrender the vehicles to the Agency.
At the same time, the Director General of the National Transport and Safety Authority was also ordered to register caveats against the records of each of the motor vehicles.
