Kenya's finance minister, top officials arrested for graft: police
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Kenya's Finance Minister Henry Rotich and other treasury officials were arrested on Monday on corruption and fraud charges related to a multi-million dollar project to build two massive dams, police said.
“They are in custody now awaiting to be taken to court,” police chief George Kinoti told AFP, adding the accused had presented themselves to the authorities after chief prosecutor Noordin Haji ordered their arrests.
The arrest marks the first time a sitting Kenyan minister has been arrested on corruption charges, in a country where graft is widespread.
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Jul 22, 2019 03:39pm
A good beginning in Kenya too. Well done.
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Jul 22, 2019 03:52pm
Are the chinese contractors for those dams ???
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Jul 22, 2019 03:53pm
They didn’t get a chance to escape to London/Dubai perhaps!
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Jul 22, 2019 04:21pm
Shame on IK for meddling Kenya politics too. He should only.concentrafe in exposing corruption in Pakistan only.
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Jul 22, 2019 04:25pm
NS and AZ your time is over. No one is tolerating your style of governance.....
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Jul 22, 2019 04:39pm
... They have taken a page out of Pakistan's book.
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Jul 22, 2019 05:06pm
Pakistanis appreciate and salute the Kenya for timely swift action, and arrest of corrupt. Unfortunately our Pakistani authorities, remained sleeping like rabbit, and our former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar abscond to UK with looted money.
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Jul 22, 2019 07:16pm
The president and his family are corrupt to the core and poverty is at the highest.Kenyan people need a revolution like France once had.Almost all of African leaders are corrupt, stooges at the hands of Western and Eastern corporates.
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Jul 22, 2019 08:10pm
Finally IK anti corruption bug has reached other places. Hopefully it reaches neighbouring countries with hopeless cases.
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Jul 22, 2019 08:30pm
@Gordon C Chalker, Chinese are worst than western nations.
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Jul 22, 2019 10:09pm
They might run but they can't hide from the long hands of law, checks and balances and due process.
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Jul 23, 2019 12:11am
In Pakistan only opposition leaders will be behind Bars
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Jul 23, 2019 02:55am
@Dabang, PMLN was Government when they were caught. Yes, they brough cases against Zardari when they were in Government and PP was opposition.
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