{"id":103782,"date":"2024-11-29T13:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T13:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/29\/kutrh-ceo-dagane-suspended-over-sh287mn-insurance-scandal\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T13:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T13:04:31","slug":"kutrh-ceo-dagane-suspended-over-sh287mn-insurance-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kutrh-ceo-dagane-suspended-over-sh287mn-insurance-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"KUTRH CEO Dagane suspended over Sh287mn insurance scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 29 \u2013 The Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital (KUTRH) Board has suspended Chief Executive Officer Ahmed Dagane over allegations of irregularly awarding a Sh287 million insurance tender.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated November 28, Board Chair Olive Mugenda appointed Isaac Kamau, the Director of Operations, as acting CEO, with appropriate allowances.<\/p>\n<p>The board has requested the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to investigate Dagane for allegedly violating procurement and public finance regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension follows increased scrutiny of public institutions over suspected kickbacks in insurance tender awards, including a recent Kenya Maritime Authority scandal.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 29 \u2013 The Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital (KUTRH) Board has suspended Chief Executive Officer Ahmed Dagane over allegations of irregularly awarding a Sh287 million insurance tender. In a letter dated November 28, Board Chair Olive Mugenda appointed Isaac Kamau, the Director of Operations, as acting CEO, with appropriate allowances. The [&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-103782","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\/103782","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=103782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}