{"id":142534,"date":"2026-05-29T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/eacc-arrests-kenya-power-employee-over-bribery-allegations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:02:49","slug":"eacc-arrests-kenya-power-employee-over-bribery-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/eacc-arrests-kenya-power-employee-over-bribery-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"EACC arrests Kenya Power employee over bribery allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has arrested a Kenya Power employee and an accomplice for allegedly soliciting and receiving a bribe to reconnect electricity to a residential property.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The arrest followed a complaint lodged with the Commission on 28th May 2026 by a resident whose electricity had been disconnected two days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The commission said investigations established that the suspect, Gerald Nyaoke, a technician attached to the Kenya Power Donholm Office, allegedly demanded Ksh 30,000 from the complainant in exchange for restoring the power supply.<\/p>\n<p>EACC detectives mounted an operation that enabled them to monitor and document interactions between the complainant and the suspects, culminating in the arrest after the alleged bribe exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were escorted to the Integrity Centre for further processing and investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEACC reiterates its commitment to combating corruption and calls upon members of the public to continue reporting cases of bribery and abuse of office\u201d, the commission stated.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/eacc-arrests-kenya-power-employee-over-bribery-allegations\/\">EACC arrests Kenya Power employee over bribery allegations<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has arrested a Kenya Power employee and an accomplice for allegedly soliciting and receiving a bribe to reconnect electricity to a residential property. The arrest followed a complaint lodged with the Commission on 28th May 2026 by a resident whose electricity had been disconnected two days earlier. The commission [&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-142534","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\/142534","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=142534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}