The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has obtained interim court orders preserving properties, a motor vehicle and funds in bank accounts in a civil recovery case involving a Lands procurement officer and seven other defendants.
The orders were issued by the High Court in Nairobi’s Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Division at Milimani in a case in which the commission is seeking to recover Sh244,972,109.25.
The orders, dated October 13, 2026, were issued by Justice Joseph Kipkoech Biomdo following an application by the EACC to safeguard the assets pending the hearing and determination of its application.
"THAT pending inter parties hearing and determination of this application, the Defendants/Respondents by themselves, their agents, servants and/or employees or any other person whosoever be and are hereby restrained from withdrawing, transferring, disposing of, wasting or in any other way dealing with the funds in the two bank accounts," the judge ordered.
According to court documents, the suit was filed against Patrick Makau Muteti, a Principal Supply Chain Management Officer at the State Department for Lands and Physical Planning, his spouse Lilian Wanza Musili, and six companies.
The case follows EACC investigations into alleged transactions connected to tender awards.
The interim orders do not determine whether the defendants unlawfully acquired the assets.
In the substantive suit, the EACC is seeking restitution of Sh244.97 million if the court finds that the transactions in question were unlawful.
Alternatively, the commission is seeking orders for the forfeiture and sale of the identified properties and motor vehicle, as well as the forfeiture of funds held in the specified bank accounts.
The interim orders are intended to preserve the assets pending the determination of the commission’s application and the substantive recovery proceedings.
The court also restrained the first and second defendants and other persons interested in the properties and motor vehicle identified in the suit from dealing with the assets, except by way of surrender to the Government.
"That pending inter partes hearing and determination of this application, the 1st and 2nd Defendants by themselves, their agents, servants and/or employees or any other person interested in the suit properties and/or motor vehicle herein be and are hereby restrained from alienating, selling, charging, further charging, leasing, transferring, wasting, disposing or in any other manner dealing with the following properties and motor vehicle other than by way of surrender to the Government of Kenya," court documents state.
The defendants are scheduled to respond to the allegations and the commission’s application at a hearing on November 19, 2026.
