PRESS STATEMENT BY H.E.

GOVERNOR ANNE WAIGURU ON

RAIDS BY EACC

AUGUST 20, 2020

Let me start by being very clear.

1. I wholeheartedly support investigations on corruption on any

individual, me included. However, such investigations must never
be about sideshows, politicking and image-shaming.

2. This morning the EACC raided my official residence, my private

home and my office in Kutus. From the statement we have seen
from EACC these raids were to search for documents in support
of an investigation into travel imprests for official trips on behalf
of the County. Anyone who understands government processes
will know that establishing whether or not an imprest for travel
was used is very basic. There are passports, tickets, imprest
warrants, ifmis print outs and receipts for monies refunded to the
imprest giver.

3. All these documents evidencing travel or refunds where no travel

took place have been presented to the EACC. They include;
• Original passports and clear copies of the same showing exit,
movement and Entry into the country.
• Imprest application documents showing amounts applied for.
• IFMIS print outs showing exactly what amounts were received.
• Tickets for all trips undertaken.
• Cancellation letters where applicable.
• Deposit slips for all funds reimbursed where trips were
cancelled.
• Our personal bank statements
• Surrender documents to finance

Most of these documents were also given to the Senate hearings

on my impeachment in the full glare of live TV coverage.

4. There is therefore nothing you can look for in someone’s house to

evidence imprest management. It is therefore a shock to be woken
up by a battery of fully armed officers raiding my house to “look
 for evidence on imprests”. Indeed, and EACC can confirm, the
multi-person search, complete with police toting machine guns
elicited only one document from my official residence and from
from my house in Nairobi - My cheque book. Relevant details of
which has been availed to EACC before. Surely, you did not need
a battery of machine gun carrying policemen, raiding my home in
darkness to get my cheque book! This could have been easily
availed with a simple request.

5. It is instructive to note that until my case, the surrender of

imprests has never been the subject of criminal corruption
investigations. A perusal of successive Auditor General reports
shows that billions of shillings remain unresurrendered by public
officers. There is no investigation or raid of houses against such
officers. Most are quietly being surcharged. This is not only the
normal practice but also as provided in law. Until now.

6. I am also surprised that EACC now claims the investigation is of

22M. I wonder where they got this new figure from considering in
the impeachment allegations and even their own interrogation of
the same the amount was of 10M. Why do they see the need to
shore up numbers?

7. The inescapable conclusion is that this is not about investigating

travel imprests but a wider scheme to shape the 2022 succession
politics of Mt Kenya, and, to detract from critical allegations
against a multitude of persons on various multimillion corruption
allegations. This is a decoy. It is intended to detract people who
have recently been asking legitimate questions about how massive
public monies have been spent. I have been here before. I have
been used as a decoy before. The plot failed then and it will fail
now. Wild allegations are thrown around only to come empty of
even the basic proof.

8. It is unjust to say the least to use other people as a decoy to cover

other serious misdeeds in the country. We hope that in the next
few days we shall see EACC officers having the same energy to
find out about the billions that are alleged to have been lost in
various scandals as they have in the case of my travel imprests.
We look forward to seeing homes and offices raided. If this is not
done, as happened in 2015, we will reconfirm my belief that this
 was no more than a detraction. Decoy building with ulterior
motives.

9. Finally, Kenyans are not easily fooled, they can see right through
this charade. They know who is behind it and they know why. Its
about 2022 politics, period!

My only comfort has always been - There is a God in heaven.

Anne Waiguru, E.G.H., O.G.W.