Investigations
EACC Probes Sh5 Million Spent On Vihiga Speaker’s Lavish Housewarming Party
The probe follows revelations from a recent audit and Senate hearings that highlighted unauthorized borrowing and expenditure on the event.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has launched a formal investigation into the alleged misuse of KSh5 million in public funds for a “lavish” house warming party at the Vihiga County Speaker’s residence.
The probe follows revelations from a recent audit and Senate hearings that highlighted unauthorized borrowing and expenditure on the event.
In letters dated February 12, 2026, the EACC demanded urgent documentation from both the Vihiga County Government and the County Assembly. The commission is seeking original or certified copies of records related to the funding, procurement, and payments for the party, which reportedly took place on December 15, 2023. The alleged Ksh 5 million was borrowed from county coffers intended for paying contractors, according to testimony before the Senate County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC).
The EACC’s letter to the Acting County Secretary requests details on the borrowing request from the County Assembly, approval by the County Government, transfer confirmations, reimbursement records, and any other relevant information. Similarly, the letter to the County Assembly Clerk demands the user department requisition, approved budgets for the 2023/2024 financial year (or relevant periods), full procurement documents (including quotations, bids, evaluations, and contracts), payment records (such as invoices, vouchers, IFMIS entries, RTGS, and cheques), and additional materials.
Both entities have until today, February 13, 2026, to submit the documents, with EACC officers Brian Shigoli and Kevin Lagat designated to receive them. The commission described the spending as “unwarranted lavish” in its correspondence.
Senators accused the governor of prioritizing non-essential activities, with the CPAC ordering a refund of the KSh 5 million by the end of the financial year or referral to the EACC for further action.
Governor Ottichilo has however defended the expenditure as necessary, but the committee rejected his explanations, labeling it a misuse of funds meant for essential services.
The EACC’s involvement could lead to charges under the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act if evidence of impropriety is found.
Kenya Insights allows guest blogging, if you want to be published on Kenya’s most authoritative and accurate blog, have an expose, news TIPS, story angles, human interest stories, drop us an email on [email protected] or via Telegram
Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa’s Tenure Controversially Extended: A Record Defined by Apologies, Denials and Corporate Opacity
THE FUEL CABAL: How Mohamed Jaffer, a KPC Insider, and a Ministry Official Are Alleged to Have Manufactured Kenya’s Worst Petroleum Crisis in Three Years, While Kenyans Burned
Sugar Empire in the Dock: How Kibos’s Mombasa Refinery Landed 1,481 Phantom Tonnes at the Port — and Why Nine Government Agencies Are Now Watching Its Every Move
G-to-G Deal Fails To Cushion Kenyans As Country Stares At Adulterated Fuel After Hiked Prices
Getting Away With It: How Kenya’s Most Politically Connected Fuel Company Gulf Energy Is Pocketing Billions While Rival Firms Face Public Wrath
The Great Vanishing Act: Odinga Family Moves Be Energy Millions to Secret Tax Haven
Kenyan Motorists Stare At Possible Engine Damage And Heavy Losses As Report Confirms Substandard Fuel In Circulation
Best Betting Sites in Kenya for 2026
How Safaricom Could Sell You Out To KRA
A Case That Refuses To Die: EABL Stake Sale Faces Fresh Challenge After Temporary Reprieve
Forged Legacy: How Kaplan and Stratton’s Peter Gachuhi Is Accused of Faking a Top AG’s Will as State Claims Damning Evidence
THE HANDSHAKE THAT BECAME A NOOSE: How Tuju’s Alleged Intimate Access to EADB’s Yeda Apopo Produced a Sh294 Million Deal With No Written Contract, and Why That Trust Destroyed an Empire
Sold And Abandoned: How Diageo and Asahi Are Locking Kenya’s EABL Minority Shareholders Out Of East Africa’s Biggest Corporate Heist
Poison at the Pump: How Kenya’s Fuel Marking System May Be Exposing Millions to Cancer-Causing Chemicals
How Firm Linked To Mombasa Tycoon Jaffer Was Allowed To Import Fuel At Bloated Price And Set To Make Billions In Profits From Iranian War Crisis In Kenya
THE ZAKHEM-ECOBANK MACHINE: How Kenya’s Courts Were Weaponised to Drain a State Corporation of Over KES 78 Billion
The Teflon Company: How Gulf Energy’s Insiders Built Billions on Kenya’s Fuel, and Walked Away Clean
Inside Details Of Sh78 Billion Fraud in KPC’s Mombasa-Nairobi Line 5 Pipeline Project That Has Continued To Bleed The Country
The Debt They Would Not Pay: How Standard Group Ducked Sh50 Million In Regulatory Fee For Years, Then Called It A Witch-Hunt
Men Linked to Akasha Drug Dynasty Charged With Death Threats and Assault at Nairobi Nightclub
-
Business2 weeks agoPoison at the Pump: How Kenya’s Fuel Marking System May Be Exposing Millions to Cancer-Causing Chemicals
-
Investigations2 weeks agoTHE ZAKHEM-ECOBANK MACHINE: How Kenya’s Courts Were Weaponised to Drain a State Corporation of Over KES 78 Billion
-
Investigations1 week agoThe Teflon Company: How Gulf Energy’s Insiders Built Billions on Kenya’s Fuel, and Walked Away Clean
-
Investigations1 week agoInside Details Of Sh78 Billion Fraud in KPC’s Mombasa-Nairobi Line 5 Pipeline Project That Has Continued To Bleed The Country
-
News1 week agoMombasa Lawyer Exposed In Sh600 Million Alleged Double-Dealing Diani Property Transaction
-
Business1 week agoWattanga Fired Over Incompetence in Tech, Insiders Say
-
Investigations2 weeks agoWho Architected the Ksh 4.8 Billion Fuel Scandal? Two CSs Now Caught in the Storm
-
News1 week agoThe Lawyer at the Centre of Kenya’s State Machine: Eric Gumbo, the AG’s Bypassed Office, and the Half-Billion-Shilling Question