1824 Owner Working At Nairobi Govt Earning Ksh55,000
High Court Judge Esther Maina granted the anti-graft agency orders to freeze the funds belonging to...
Marvin Chege 
Details have now emerged regarding an employee of the Nairobi County Government who had his Ksh48 million frozen by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC).
High Court Judge Esther Maina on Tuesday, December 13 granted the anti-graft agency orders to freeze the funds belonging to Wilson Nashon Kanani to allow for investigations into how he obtained the money despite earning a net salary of Ksh55,000 per month.
“The court has prohibited him (Wilson), his agents and servants from withdrawing, transferring, disposing of, wasting and/or in any other way dealing with funds held in his various bank accounts and from transferring, disposing of, wasting and/or in any other way dealing with two high-end motor vehicles,” stated the judge at the time.
Image of Wilson Nashon Kanani. /FILE
The court's anti-corruption division also froze 11 bank accounts owned by Kanani and his family members following an application by the EACC. In a country where only 2.5 per cent of registered bank accounts have deposits of more than Ksh100,000, Kanani’s two underage children have Ksh3.56 million in their account.
Justice Esther Maina also barred Kanani and his family from disposing of two Mercedes Benz vehicles registered to him, despite earning the Ksh55,000 per month from City Hall, which employs him to crack down on advertising companies to make sure their billboards and other signage do not violate national and county laws.
“Although he earns a monthly net salary of Ksh55,000, investigations have revealed that between January 2016 and October 2022, he received and channelled monies suspected to have been received through corruption amounting to Ksh506,397,460.71/- through bank accounts in his name, the name of companies associated with him, his family members including his spouse and his minor children,” reads court documents.
While many of his fellow Kenyans earn a similar salary ride in matatus, Kanani moves around the streets of Nairobi in sleek Mercedes Benz cars commonly driven by highly-paid employees, managers, wealthy businesspersons and top CEOs.
He also owns a townhouse in Phenom Estate, Lang’ata, a residential house and rental property in Busia, an apartment in Lang’ata’s NHC estate and an apartment in Kahawa, which are all suspected to have been acquired using proceeds of corruption.
“He is associated with five companies Wilman Auto Invests, Wilman Auto Invests (Logistics), Willy Walla International Limited, Wilcoreg Limited and Regineez Enterprises Limited which are reasonably suspected to have traded with the Nairobi City County Government,” the court was told.
Kanani and two business associates make about Ksh5.6 million each month from one of Nairobi’s most popular nightclubs, 1824. In 2020, 1824, through its parent company Seventeen Forty-Nine Ltd, sought court orders to allow it to resume operations amid the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, explaining that it had lost more than Ksh45 million in the eight months of night curfew and pub closures.
The nightclub attracted controversy after video footage of revellers enjoying themselves while violating mandatory Covid-19 protocols emerged on social media. It was then shut down.
During the crackdown on clubs operating in residential areas as declared by Nairobi Governor, Johnson Sakaja, 1824 was one of the popular clubs targeted. On Sunday, November 27, police officers raided the club and ordered all revellers out of the club, regardless of whether or not they finished their drinks.
Some of the officers were captured in a viral video armed with clubs, appearing to use force in evicting the revellers from the premises.
Records from the Business Registration Service (BRS) as reported by the Nation indicate that Kanani owns 1,000 shares in Seventeen Forty Nine Ltd, and by extension, 1824. His co-owners Biko Ochieng Gwendo and George Avugwi Lutta have a similar amount of shares in the company that was incorporated on August 25, 2014.
Another one of his companies, Wilcoreg Limited, has been established to be in the pool of mega suppliers in Nairobi and Siaya Counties. Wilcoreg was in Siaya County’s pool of firms that can be contracted to drill boreholes, and build dams, water pans, roads and bridges and was one of the firms in the National Assembly’s pool of stationery suppliers.
Inside 1824 club which was closed in 2020 for breaking COVID-19 protocols. /STANDARD DIGITAL
Investigations revealed that one time when Willy Walla received a deposit of Ksh278 million, his personal account at a local bank received Ksh181 million.
Among the transactions that detectives have flagged are fund transfers from the Kenyatta family-associated Mediamax Network Ltd totalling Ksh23.8 million. Another transfer saw advertising firm Parrot Concepts Ltd pay him Ksh50 million.
According to court papers, Kanani has not declared any source of income to City Hall other than his Ksh55,000 salary.
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