{"id":15106,"date":"2019-07-22T06:43:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T10:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=15106"},"modified":"2019-07-22T06:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T10:43:47","slug":"kenya-finance-minister-henry-rotich-arrested-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/07\/22\/kenya-finance-minister-henry-rotich-arrested-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya finance minister Henry Rotich arrested for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenya’s finance minister has surrendered himself to the police after the chief prosecutor ordered his arrest over allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n

Henry Rotich is accused of flouting procurement procedures in awarding a contract worth over $450m (\u00a3405m) for the construction of two dams to the Italian company CMC de Ravenna.<\/p>\n

In March Mr Rotich denied any wrongdoing in a large newspaper advert.<\/p>\n

The company has also denied the accusations.<\/p>\n

Director of public prosecutions Noordin Haji is also investigating how the tender was awarded for $170m more than was in the original contract.<\/p>\n

“It was established that the conception, procurement and payment process for the dam projects were riddled with massive illegalities,” he said.<\/p>\n

He has ordered the arrest of more than 20 other people accused of being involved in the contract, including other top officials and the directors of CMC de Ravenna.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenya’s finance minister has surrendered himself to the police after the chief prosecutor ordered his arrest over allegations of corruption. Henry Rotich is accused of flouting procurement procedures in awarding a contract worth over $450m […]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,6],"tags":[948,6409,1160],"class_list":{"0":"post-15106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-world","10":"tag-corruption","11":"tag-henry-rotich","12":"tag-kenya","13":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15108,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106\/revisions\/15108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}