{"id":34578,"date":"2024-05-02T10:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T10:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/02\/migori-court-assistant-to-be-charged-with-obtaining-a-bribe\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T10:03:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T10:03:38","slug":"migori-court-assistant-to-be-charged-with-obtaining-a-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/migori-court-assistant-to-be-charged-with-obtaining-a-bribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Migori Court Assistant to be charged with obtaining a bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, May 2 \u2014 The Public Prosecutor has approved charges against a Court Assistant in Migori who obtained a Sh20,000 bribe promising an accused person a lenient sentence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shadrack Odhiambo asked for a Sh100,000 bribe and consequently received a Sh20,000 bribe to help the unnamed individual get a lighter sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Director of the public prosecution has today\u00a0made the decision\u00a0to charge a court assistant at the Judiciary in the county government of Migori for requesting a bribe of\u00a0Sh100,000\u00a0in order to\u00a0help an accused person get a lighter sentence in a criminal case,\u201d the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) stated on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Odhiambo is set to be charged with two counts of receiving a bribe which is contrary to Section 6(1) (b) as read with Section 18(1) of the Bribery Act 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The ODPP affirmed its commitment to taking legal action against anyone who hinders the administration of justice by abusing legal processes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, May 2 \u2014 The Public Prosecutor has approved charges against a Court Assistant in Migori who obtained a Sh20,000 bribe promising an accused person a lenient sentence Shadrack Odhiambo asked for a Sh100,000 bribe and consequently received a Sh20,000 bribe to help the unnamed individual get a lighter sentence. \u201cThe Director of 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-34578","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\/34578","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=34578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}