The anti-corruption agency has temporarily been barred from searching and valuating properties belonging to former Nairobi governor Evans Kidero.
Anti-corruption High Court judge Hedwig Ong’undi yesterday said a ruling touching on the search warrants used by the EACC on Kidero’s properties was not ready thus the need to temporarily stop the commission pending the court’s final decision.
"The ruling shall be delivered on November 6. Meanwhile, the respondents to put on hold any actions of valuation or entry into the premises or buildings belonging to the petitioners until then,” the judge said.
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Kidero (pictured), through lawyer James Orengo, yesterday told the court the anti-graft agency has been invading his properties and causing havoc and distress amongst tenants and occupants of properties he owns.
He argued the actions and conduct of the commission amount to economic sabotage and is aimed at crippling him financially.
"The total invasion of our clients properties by the EACC and the manner in which the evaluation and search is being carried out is a total infringement of his privacy,"
Orengo said.
He said all the 58 properties EACC listed in court were acquired before he became a state officer upon election to the office of governor of Nairobi county in 2013.
The EACC, he said, has no justification in forcibly entering the properties and disrupting businesses carried thereon on the claim of investigations.