Hannah Cheptumo, Nominee for Cabinet Secretary, Gender, Culture, The Arts and Heritage, has declared her family’s net worth estimate at Sh420 million.

Appearing before the Committee on Appointments on the vetting of Cabinet Secretaries’ nominees on Monday, Cheptumo said the amount comprised of real estate and other properties she did not mention.

“Our net worth as a family is Sh420,049,000 or thereabouts. These are estimates made of a residential house in Karen worth about Sh.100 million; another house in Nakuru worth Sh.15 million… it is a very big list,” Cheptumo said.

She said part of the wealth was owned by her later husband, William Cheptum, who was the former Baringo senator.

 “I don’t have money; the money I have belongs to my husband, and I have not done succession.”

Cheptumo further revealed to the committee that she lost part of the money while settling a debt left behind by her late husband.

“By the way, Mr Speaker, part of what was supposed to be due to him has already been stolen. During the day we were having the church service, I was told that Sh250,000 had borrowed by him. I was told who was having his phone, I said I was the one, so you are a beneficiary of corrupt dealings? I said, Why? They said he had borrowed Sh250,000, and already it has been spent, so it is less that,” she said.

She claimed the credit cooperative, which she declined to mention by name, had deducted the money from her late husband’s account.

If approved, she promised to push for the repatriation of various artifacts stolen from Kenya to other nations across the globe.

She was nominated in March this year to fill the docket, which has been without a CS since August 2024.