Six months after Gladys Atieno Nyasuna Wanga took office as the Governor of Homa Bay County, a company quietly appeared in official records under the name Exxel Fortune Enterprises Limited. The company, barely a year old, had already pocketed nearly Ksh19.92 million through deals with the County Government of Homa Bay and the Homa Bay Teaching and Referral Hospital. What followed after those transactions raised serious questions about how public funds were being handled and who was really benefiting from the system that Governor Wanga promised to clean up.
Odoyo Owidi, a former county official and outspoken critic of corruption, has now come forward to expose what he describes as a well-coordinated network of looting involving the governor’s own brother.
The records he shared reveal that immediately after the county payments were made to Exxel Fortune Enterprises, large sums were withdrawn in cash by the company’s signatories, Maxwel Nyasuna and Collins Okoth.
Maxwel Nyasuna, identified as Governor Wanga’s brother, withdrew Ksh9.74 million, while Collins Okoth took out Ksh12.19 million in cash. These withdrawals happened within days, leaving no trace of how or where the money was used.
Further examination of mobile money transactions shows that the company also made suspicious M-Pesa transfers. Among them were Ksh200,000 sent to Richard Ogindo and Ksh850,670 sent to Collins Okoth through two different M-Pesa numbers. The pattern of these transactions suggests a deliberate attempt to move money quickly and avoid scrutiny, raising the possibility that the county’s procurement system was being used as a personal cash machine for those close to the governor.
The revelations have angered many residents of Homa Bay who feel betrayed by the leadership they trusted. During her campaigns, Governor Wanga promised transparency, fairness, and an end to corruption. However, the emerging evidence paints a very different picture one where county resources are allegedly being siphoned off by family members and associates under her watch.
This is only a small portion of the evidence that Odoyo Owidi claims to have in his possession. The full report runs over 112 pages, with this current leak covering less than a quarter of a single page. He insists that the documents reveal an even wider network of companies linked to Wanga’s relatives and friends, all benefiting from inflated contracts and backdoor deals. If true, the scale of corruption could be far deeper than what the public has seen so far.
