{"id":100080,"date":"2024-10-23T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T10:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/4-taita-taveta-county-officials-due-in-court-as-dpp-approves-graft-charges\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T10:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T10:03:33","slug":"4-taita-taveta-county-officials-due-in-court-as-dpp-approves-graft-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/4-taita-taveta-county-officials-due-in-court-as-dpp-approves-graft-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Taita Taveta county officials due in court as DPP approves graft charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has approved the prosecution of four senior officials from Taita Taveta County for allegedly embezzling over Ksh 7 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The officers are set to appear before the Mombasa Anti-Corruption Court to answer five charges, including abuse of office, forgery, engaging in a project without prior planning, conspiracy to commit an offence of corruption, and uttering false documents.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are Thomas Jumwa, the current Economic Advisor to the Governor; Liverson Mghendi, former County Secretary; Leonard Langat, former Chief Officer of Finance; and Christine Wakera, former Chief Officer of Trade, Tourism &amp; Cooperatives Development.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested on Tuesday by detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC).<\/p>\n<p>The officials are accused of defrauding the county under the pretext of commemorating the First World War between November 24 and 27, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to EACC, investigations revealed that the alleged event was not included in the Annual Procurement Plan or budgeted for in the Financial Year 2022\/23.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, procurement procedures were fraught with irregularities, as suppliers were paid despite not providing any services to the County Government, and the documents supporting these payments were forged.<\/p>\n<p>The EACC has stated that it will file civil proceedings to recover the embezzled funds.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/4-taita-taveta-county-officials-due-in-court-as-dpp-approves-graft-charges\/\">4 Taita Taveta county officials due in court as DPP approves graft charges<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/4-taita-taveta-county-officials-due-in-court-as-dpp-approves-graft-charges\/\">4 Taita Taveta county officials due in court as DPP approves graft charges<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has approved the prosecution of four senior officials from Taita Taveta County for allegedly embezzling over Ksh 7 million. The officers are set to appear before the Mombasa Anti-Corruption Court to answer five charges, including abuse of office, forgery, engaging in a project without prior planning, conspiracy to commit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}