{"id":25830,"date":"2026-01-15T20:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25830\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:55:09","slug":"blow-to-wamatangi-wife-and-children-as-accounts-frozen-over-graft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25830\/","title":{"rendered":"Blow to Wamatangi, wife and children as accounts frozen over graft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mhk0NQU52JwCZhcDEMQq6k0WJOsWO6zswVEazdjO.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nKiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi tours his demolished business premises along Douglas Wakihuri Road Nairobi on January 14,2025. [Benard Orwongo,Standard]<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Kiambu Governor Paul Kimani Wamatangi, his wife, children, and 10 others have suffered a major blow after the High Court issued orders freezing their bank accounts over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001538500\/ag-oduor-ig-kanja-risk-jail-after-wamatangi-demolition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sh813 million graft scandal<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Justice Benjamin Musyoki ordered five accounts to remain frozen pending the hearing of a recovery suit by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on February 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Uncover the stories others won\u2019t tell. Subscribe now for exclusive access\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    Unlimited access to all premium content<br \/>\n                    Uninterrupted ad-free browsing experience<br \/>\n                    Mobile-optimized reading experience<br \/>\n                    Weekly Newsletters<br \/>\n                    MPesa, Airtel Money and Cards accepted<\/p>\n<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va0PRAYGk1Fo4ODHAg0b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Follow The Standard<br \/>\n                                    channel<br \/>\n                                    on WhatsApp<\/a><br \/>\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi tours his demolished business premises along Douglas Wakihuri Road Nairobi on January 14,2025. [Benard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[15646,80,14301,15645],"class_list":{"0":"post-25830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-eacc-prosecutions","9":"tag-kenya","10":"tag-kimani-wamatangi","11":"tag-wamatangi-accounts-frozenwamatangi-graft-probe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}