{"id":96481,"date":"2024-09-26T08:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T08:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/kfs-interdicts-2-officers-arrested-by-eacc-on-fraud-charges\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T08:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T08:03:10","slug":"kfs-interdicts-2-officers-arrested-by-eacc-on-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kfs-interdicts-2-officers-arrested-by-eacc-on-fraud-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"KFS interdicts 2 officers arrested by EACC on fraud charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 26 \u2014 The Kenya Forest Service (KFS) has interdicted the two officers following their arrest by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) in Garissa in a suspected fraud syndicate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, September 25, KFS said the agency does not condone any form of corruption promising to swiftly address similar cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll KFS staff are made aware of the Anti-Corruption Policy, Staff Code of Conduct and Whistleblowers Policy, which uphold a zero-tolerance stance against corruption,\u201d said KFS.<\/p>\n<p>EACC arrested two Kenya Forest Officers in Garissa in crackdown for fraud and recover Sh73,000 collected in a day.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, Elphas Wesonga who is a Conservator and Ibrahim Hussein an accountant, overpaid casual employees engaged by the institution and later demand surrender of the overpaid money from the casuals for their personal use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther, the officials have been depositing money in the casuals\u2019 bank accounts disguised as legitimate payments then later order the workers to withdraw and hand over to them,\u201d said EACC.<\/p>\n<p>EACC indicated a premilimanry assessment showed money collected in the syndicate is shared among the officers and their seniors.<\/p>\n<p>The two were processed at EACC North Eastern Regional Offices in Garissa and booked at Garissa Police Station pending further processing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 26 \u2014 The Kenya Forest Service (KFS) has interdicted the two officers following their arrest by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) in Garissa in a suspected fraud syndicate. In a statement on Wednesday, September 25, KFS said the agency does not condone any form of corruption promising to swiftly address similar [&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-96481","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\/96481","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=96481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}