{"id":5741,"date":"2024-02-26T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/deputy-speaker-charged-with-abuse-of-office-over-sh17mn-expenditure-on-zanzibar-trip\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:04:08","slug":"deputy-speaker-charged-with-abuse-of-office-over-sh17mn-expenditure-on-zanzibar-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/deputy-speaker-charged-with-abuse-of-office-over-sh17mn-expenditure-on-zanzibar-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Speaker charged with abuse of office over Sh17mn expenditure on Zanzibar trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOMBASA, Kenya, Feb 26 \u2014 Anselm Mwadime, the Deputy Speaker of Taita Taveta County Assembly, has been charged with fraud over irregular expenditure on a 2022 trip to Zanzibar. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mwadime, Member for Mwanda Mghange, was arraigned before a Mombasa Anti-Corruption Court on Monday following his arrest on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He faced abuse of office charges for clearing a Sh17 million expenditure to facilitate what the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) described as a bonding trip.<\/p>\n<p>The agency specifically singled out a Sh1.3 million payment to five secretariat members who were not members of the Liason Committee entitled to the said benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Further, EACC cited financial misconduct over the approval of a Sh795,675 payment for three other members identified as Chrispus Tondo, Rose Sariki, and Mohamed Omar. <\/p>\n<p>The anti-graft agency told the court the week-long Zanzibar trip cost the taxpayer Sh8 million in advance imprest with Sh9 million having been paid to conference organizers.<\/p>\n<p>Mwadime denied all the charges before Mombasa Chief Magistrate Alex Ithuku.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOMBASA, Kenya, Feb 26 \u2014 Anselm Mwadime, the Deputy Speaker of Taita Taveta County Assembly, has been charged with fraud over irregular expenditure on a 2022 trip to Zanzibar. Mwadime, Member for Mwanda Mghange, was arraigned before a Mombasa Anti-Corruption Court on Monday following his arrest on Sunday. He faced abuse of office charges for [&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-5741","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\/5741","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=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}