Anne Amadi Biography: Tribe, Education, Career, Husband, Net Worth and Gold Scandal

In the recent past, Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Anne Amadi found herself entangled in a gold scandal after a Nairobi High Court froze her accounts.

Amadi, her son Brian Ochieng Amadi, and two others had their bank accounts frozen for allegedly conning a Dubai-based company KSh 102 million in a gold deal.

She was first employed in the Judiciary in 1990 as a District Magistrate.

Amadi, who holds a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice from Boston University in the United States, started his private law firm in 1997.

She was later employed as Chief Registrar of the Judiciary in 2014, replacing Gladys Boss Shollei, who was sacked.

Anne Amadi education

Amadi holds a Masters in Criminal Justice from Boston University, USA and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Nairobi.

She also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Kenya School of Law.

Amadi holds two other Post Graduate Diplomas, one in Alternative Dispute Resolution from California State University and another in Law of Internal Displacement from the Institute of International Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy.

Anne Amadi career

Amadi joined the judicial service as a District Magistrate II (Prof.) in 1990.

She rose through the ranks to become a Resident Magistrate before joining private legal practice as Sole proprietor at A. A. Amadi & Co. Advocates between 1997 and 2003.

Amadi served at Federation of Women Lawyers – Kenya (FIDA) as Deputy Executive Director between 2003 and 2008 and as the National Coordinator of National Legal Aid and Awareness Programme (NALEAP).

She also served in the Ministry of Justice National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, between 2008 and 2011.

Until her appointment as the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary in January 2014, she was working as a Consultant.

Functions of the Chief Registrar

The functions of the Chief Registrar are as follows;

1. To prepare estimates of expenditure and submit to the National approval
2. Administer the Judiciary Fund
3. Secretary to the Judicial Service Commission; National Council for Administration of Justice.
4. Perform Judicial functions vested in the Chief Registrar by law
5. Exercise powers vested in the office of the Chief Registrar by virtue of any law or regulation and give effect to the directions of the Chief Justice
6. Authorized officer of the Judiciary who shall be responsible for the efficient management of the day to day operations and administration of Human Resources in the Judicial Service
7. In charge of support services in the Judiciary and in particular, planning, development and organization of staff
8. Monitor and enhance administration and office procedures to maximize on efficiency and quality of service
9. Plan, prepare, implement and monitor the budget and collect, receive and account for revenue
10. Prepare reports and proposals on administration issues
11. In charge of the procurement of all stores, management and maintenance of all physical facilities. 

Anne Amadi tribe

According to reliable sources, Anne Atieno Amadi is Luo.

Who is Anne Amadi’s husband?

There is little information about the Chief Registrar’s husband, even though she has been quoted in the past saying she is married.

Anne Amadi gold scandal

On Friday, May 19, 2023, a court frozen the bank accounts of Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Anne Amadi and those of a law firm registered in her name that is at the centre of a gold scandal case in which a British citizen claims to have been defrauded of more than Ksh 100 million in US dollars in 2021.

Amadi, alongside her son Brian Ochieng, two other Kenyans and a Liberian citizen have been sued by Bruton Gold Trading LLC, a gold trading firm registered in Dubai, which claims to have lost $742,206 between September 22 and October 21, 2021.

According to an affidavit by the trader, Demetrios Bradshaw, the money was meant for the purchase of 1,500 kilogrammes of gold bars, but the precious metal was never delivered to the buyer in Dubai.

The other defendants in the case are Andrew Njenga Kiarie, Kikanae Topoti, Daniel Ndegwa Kangara alias Daniel Muriithi and Edward Taylor alias Mboronda Seyenkulo Sakor, a Liberian passport holder.

Ochieng, Kiarie and Topoti are advocates in the law firm, Amadi and Associates, while Kangara was representing a company called Universal Gold Logistics Limited (UGL) and Sakor was said to have been the vendor of the gold.

High Court judge David Majanja on Thursday certified the case as urgent and froze several bank accounts belonging to Amadi and the law firm – Amadi & Associates Advocates, pending the determination of the case.

In his affidavit, Bradshaw says that in September 2021, he entered into a transaction with Taylor and paid the cash to UGL through Amadi and Associates, who were its legal representatives.

Kangara then sent him documents indicating that the gold had been exported and would shortly arrive in Dubai. He was given a flight and consignment number.

However, when he checked with the airline, he was told no such consignment had been sent aboard the flight.

When he checked with Kangara and Sakor, they informed him that the gold had been taken off the plane as there were some payments which had not been made.

He then made the payments and they confirmed to him that some 200 kilogrammes of gold would be exported on the October 22, 2021.

How the money was distributed;