News / / 06.13.18

Daily Nation: Kenya urged to seize assets of S.Sudan leaders

A US-based team of financial forensic specialists is criticising the Kenyan government for not investigating South Sudan leaders’ purchases of luxury homes in Nairobi.

The Sentry, a non-governmental investigative unit, noted on Tuesday that in 2016 its analysts had publicly identified high-priced properties in both Kenya and Uganda acquired by South Sudanese involved in a civil war that has killed tens of thousands and pushed millions out of the country or to the brink of starvation.

These homes in exclusive Nairobi and Kampala neighbourhoods may have been bought with the proceeds of corruption, The Sentry said two years ago and repeated on Tuesday…

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