[Mombasa governor Ali Hassan Joho (R) during an interview with NTV host Nimrod Tabu at PrideInn Hotel, Mombasa, March 22, 2017. Photo/facebook.com]
Mombasa governor Ali Hassan Joho has indicated that his bank accounts have been frozen.
This comes barely a week, after he revealed that the government was after one of his bank accounts, over undisclosed issues.
The Kenya Revenue Authority's letter to one of Joho's bank, Diamond Trust Bank (DTB), required it to provide all transactions Joho made since 2011.
"You are hereby given a notice to provide bank statements, account opening documents, mandate forms and any other records for all accounts held in respect of Joho," read part of the letter by KRA Investigation and Enforcement Department Commissioner Justus Kiuvu.
In the letter dated March 14 Kiuvu said: "Information available in electronic form should be availed in that form to Justus.Kiuvu@kra.go.ke over and above providing certified hard copies of the same to 6th floor Time Towers.''
Joho went public saying he was being targeted following his criticism against the president.
Speaking during a rally in Lamu, Joho revealed his three bank accounts at Barclays Bank, Stanbic Bank and DTB, saying he was free to be investigated, and hid nothing.
During an interview with NTV, the ODM deputy party leader disclosed his bank accounts had already been frozen.
"They have already frozen my bank accounts. I told them to go ahead and do what they think is good for them. I was born without money and will die without any. God is my bread winner and so I don't worry about that,'' Joho said, Wednesday, while in Mombasa.
The governor and president Uhuru Kenyatta have been in political spat, publicly.