Governor, others face trial over graft
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the project in busia involved a solid waste management system1 governor sospeter ojaamong of busia county in kenya and nine of his officials are to face trial over corruption abuse of office and conspiracy to steal public funds1 noordin haji said evidence presented by the national anti-corruption agency was enough to prosecute ojaamong the governor of busia county and nine other officials accused of helping him to steal millions of kenyan shillings in public funds1 the prosecutor said in a statement he had instructed the ethics and anti-corruption commission eacc to arrest all of the suspects and have them brought before court1 ojaamong was not immediately reachable for comment1 as with some other scandals involving alleged corruption by government officials the case is based on evidence of suspicious procurement practices for a public works project that was never completed1 kenyas top prosecutor on tuesday ordered that the governor face charges in the countrys anti-graft campaign1 the prosecutor said in june that several recent investigations by the eacc had gaps and lacked strong evidence forcing him to return the cases to the agency for further work1 in tuesdays statement haji said the investigation into the governor had been resubmitted to his office in june1 it had gaps that in my opinion if not covered would not have sustained a credible prosecution haji wrote in a text message1 the government led by president uhuru kenyatta who was re-elected in 2017 has said it is undertaking a renewed push to tackle graft1 the charging of dozens of civil servants and business people over the past two months suggested an attempt to fight corruption through prosecution but the countrys track record on that front is poor1 kenyan media have reported on more than a dozen corruption scandals involving state agencies and officials since kenyatta took power but there have been no convictions of high profile figures according to a reuters review of the cases. reutersnan1