The NGO Coordination Board led by Mohammed Fazul has de-registered the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) linked to US-based law scholar Prof Makau Mutua.
In a 2-page statement to the press on Monday, Fazul cited KHRC has misappropriated sh1.2 billion and had been operating illegal bank accounts and employing expatriates fraudulently.
Fazul said KHRC has four illegal bank accounts, two at NIC Bank and two at CBA Bank.
“KHRC cannot account for sh1.2 billion that was in the account by October4, 2016in accordance to the NGOs Coordination Act 1990,” read part of the letter.
“Your organization has employed expatriates without valid work permits contrary to the Immigration Act 2011.”
The Civil rights group was also accused of tax evasion amounting to sh100 million.
Fazul directed Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) to freeze the NGO’s accounts and urged Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to recover the sh100 million tax allegedly evaded by the KHRC.
This last attack has been viewed as Jubilee administration purge.
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s all time critic Prof Makau Mutua is KHRC Chairman.
KHRC questioned IEBC’s results as soon as they started coming through in the recently concluded polls.
Prof Mutua has failed to acknowledge Uhuru as the President since his first election to office in 2013.
Fazul also said the NGO has been making illegal payments to board members.
“The said remuneration to board members is only found in notes but not traceable in the main statements of accounts,” he said.
He called on the Director of Immigration to deport all expatriates working for KHRC.
In response to Fazul’s allegations, KHRC Executive Director George Kegoro termed the attack on the organization as “political witch-hunt.”
He said the allegation are untrue and are a “figment of Fazul’s imagination”.
He told NTV that this was the third attack by the NGO’s Board since the first one in 2015.
Kegoro also said Fazul did not write to his organization; he addressed it through the media.
“We don’t have a document from the NGO Board written to us…he writes to the media rather than to us,” charged Kegoro.
“The timing why this is coming up is obviously politics.”
KHRC will head to court on Tuesday to challenge the ban by the NGO Board.
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