Kenya’s Finance Minister, Others Arrested Amid Corruption Allegation

Finance Minister of Kenya, Henry Rotich speaks during a panel discussion on the State of the Africa Region at the World Bank IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, DC. ZACH GIBSON / AFPKenya’s Finance Minister Henry Rotich and other treasury officials were arrested Monday on corruption and fraud charges over a multi-million dollar project to build two mega-dams, police said.

Haji said the conception, procurement and payment processes for the dam project — part of a bid to improve water supply in the drought-prone country — was “riddled with irregularities”. According to the contract, the project was to cost a total of $450 million , but the treasury had increased this amount by $164 million “without regard to performance or works,” said Haji.Another $6 million was paid out for the resettlement of people living in areas that would be affected by the project, but there is no evidence of land being acquired for this, the chief prosecutor said.

Let's try to emulate Kenya on this....

Can this happen in Nigeria of today! Emphatically NO!

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