{"id":89290,"date":"2024-09-09T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/09\/court-orders-arrest-of-governor-bii-for-failure-to-testify-in-sh1-1bn-finland-education-scam\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:03:10","slug":"court-orders-arrest-of-governor-bii-for-failure-to-testify-in-sh1-1bn-finland-education-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/court-orders-arrest-of-governor-bii-for-failure-to-testify-in-sh1-1bn-finland-education-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Court orders arrest of Governor Bii, for failure to testify in Sh1.1bn Finland Education scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAKURU, Kenya, Sep 9 \u2013 A Nakuru Magistrate\u2019s court has ordered th immediate arrest of Uasin Gishu Governor, Jonathan Bii and three others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senior Principal Magistrate Peter Ndege issued a warrant of arrest against Bii, former Uasin Gishu Deputy Governor, John Barorot, Edwin Bett, Hilary Ruto and Stephen Lel after they refused to honour a court summon summon.<\/p>\n<p>They were expected in court today to testify in a cases where Uasin Gishu Senator and two former county officials, Meshack Rono and Joshua Lelei are charged with 10 fraud related offences.<\/p>\n<p>The three are charged with stealing Sh1.1 billion from parents through the scandalous Finland Education Program.<\/p>\n<p>The other nine charges include conspiring to steal, stealing, abuse of office and forgery.<\/p>\n<p>The three are accused of misusing the Sh1.1 billion which parents had deposited in the Uasin Gishu Overseas Education Fund account.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Angeline Chinga said the five witnesses had been formerly summoned but failed to appear in court as required.<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyers protested the failure to present prosecution witnesses saying that their clients were incurring huge losses financially travelling to Nakuru only for the hearing to be postponed.<\/p>\n<p>The magistrate also summoned one of the lead witnesses in the case, Mercy Tarus after the Investigating Officer said she was unreachable.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAKURU, Kenya, Sep 9 \u2013 A Nakuru Magistrate\u2019s court has ordered th immediate arrest of Uasin Gishu Governor, Jonathan Bii and three others. Senior Principal Magistrate Peter Ndege issued a warrant of arrest against Bii, former Uasin Gishu Deputy Governor, John Barorot, Edwin Bett, Hilary Ruto and Stephen Lel after they refused to honour a [&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-89290","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\/89290","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=89290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}