BILLIONAIRE COUPLE LIFESTYLE OVER; SH1 BILLION TO BE FORFEITED TO THE STATE
Driven by greed Joseph Wanjohi and Jane Wambui were a happily married couple that seemed to have the best things in life. A posh home with top of the range vehicles - a Range Rover and a Mercedez Benz - with five other properties spread across and outside the city in form of land, fat bank accounts among other things. Life was good and their simple T-shirt and shoes business had made them overnight billionaires
However, behind the T-shirt business were hard core drug traffickers and traders in wildlife trophies who have been caught up by the law.
In a court ruling that echoed facts pointed out by the Assets Recovery Agency, the couple are to forfeit their Sh1 billion property which have been established to be proceeds of crime. Justice Mumbi Ngugi ruled that the property and money worth Sh1 billion shillings must be forfeited.
The judge concurred with the Assets Recovery Agency that their activities threatened national security, public good and erosion of values. Moreover, trade in wildlife trophies has had a detrimental effect to our economy which negatively affects tourism. Justice Mumbi Ngugi pointed out that such that the law must ensure that criminals do not enjoy the proceeds of crime.
The Assets Recovery Agency has successfully recovered over Sh3 billion beingoart of corruption proceeds from a number of scandals.
Joseph Wanjohi and Jane Mumbi were under active investigations for narcotics trafficking, distribution and sale of narcortics and illegitimate trade of wildlife trophies. They have been arrested and charged but have occassionally bought their way to freedom, threatening police on various occassions.
The couple who targeted young people who got easily hooked majorly operated in Nairobi and Kiambu. The business was considered a family business with some of their sibling serving their jail terms.
trust me, wakenya huwa watu chocha, and have this sense of misplaced pride. in the 90’s everything around us was collapsing, and instead of Kenyans asking the hard questions, we opted for the side shows.
kenyans took their kids to private schools, private hospitals, we even bought 4wheel drive cars to deal with the bad roads.
Let’s also keep in mind, that’s when we had the most vibrant opposition in the history of Kenyan politics. What they were telling us, is to wait until they get in power.
Today nearly all our urban areas, are faced with water shortages, instead of us addressing the issue, we’ve resulted in a dick measuring contest, of who can own the biggest water tank, and who can drill the deepest borehole.