EACC recovers KSh708,664 from former Homa Bay County official

Africa, Crime Diary

NAIROBI, Kenya (NPA) — Kenya’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has secured an order for the recovery of KSh708,664 from a former Homa Bay County Government employee who received double salary payments for more than three years.

In a judgment delivered on September 18, 2026, the High Court ordered Evelyne Adhiambo Ogweno, a former medical social worker at Ndiru Hospital Centre in Rangwe Sub-County, and former County Payroll Officer Maurice Ochieng Wambo to jointly and severally refund KSh708,664 to the Government of Kenya.

According to a statement by the EACC on September 22, 2026, the recovery followed investigations into multiple salary payments to current and former employees of the Homa Bay County Government.

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The investigation established that Ogweno, a former employee of the County Department of Health Services, received additional salary payments between February 2015 and May 2018.

During the period, she received KSh708,664 in additional payments over and above her regular salary.

The EACC subsequently filed a recovery suit against Ogweno and three former county payroll officials to recover the additional public funds.

The recovery forms part of a series of cases filed by the commission following investigations into the alleged loss of KSh42,249,988 through the Homa Bay County Government payroll system.

In addition to recovering the public funds, the EACC said it was pursuing the prosecution of public officials found to bear the greatest responsibility for the alleged payroll fraud.