Irony of KRA manager, wife accused of evading Sh38m tax
Times Tower in Nairobi, the headquarters of Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). The KRA manager boasts of an investment portfolio that even chief executives in blue chip companies would be jealous of. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
He has at least 10 homes spread across Nairobi, Mombasa and Kilifi and a block of flats in Nairobi’s Umoja Estate.
Mr Gikonyo has also invested in Equity Bank, Safaricom, Kenya Reinsurance Corporation, KenGen and Madison Insurance.
When the court froze his assets in 2016 pending an Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) investigation, his six bank accounts had a cumulative Sh15.1 million balance.
For the last decade, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) manager Joseph Chege Gikonyo has been living large, having acquired assets worth at least Sh597 million.
The KRA worker boasts of an investment portfolio that even chief executives in blue chip companies would be jealous of.
