EACC Cleared to Arrest Bomet Governor Hillary Barchok After High Court Ruling
The High Court has refused to block the detention of Bomet Governor Hillary Barchok over graft allegations.
Barchok appeared before the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission earlier today, together with former Bungoma Governor Wycliffe Wangamati, just days after the Director of Public Prosecutions, Renson Ingonga, ordered their prosecution.
However, in its ruling, just hours after the governor presented himself to the commission, the court declined to issue orders that would have, in turn, led to the EACC not being able to detain and prosecute him.
In his statement on Thursday, August 28, Ingonga said that he would be charged with a conflict of interest after he received Ksh2,750,000 from companies that traded with the county between the financial years 2019/2020 and 2024/2025.
The ODPP further stated that the governor should be arraigned in court alongside the Director of Chemasus Construction Limited, Evans Kipkoech Korir.
Ingonga said that the governor and Korir should be charged with conflict of interest, money laundering, acquisition of proceeds of crime, and unlawful acquisition of public property.
“On 18th July 2025, the ODPP received an inquiry file from the EACC accompanied by a report under section 35 of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, Cap 65 Laws of Kenya,” Ingonga stated.
“The EACC recommended that Hillary Kipng’eno Barchok, the Governor County Government of Bomet, and Evans Kipkoech Korir, Director of Chemasus Construction Limited, be arraigned in court,” he added.
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