KENYA
Charging Ahead
Kenya issued formal charges Monday against more than 50 people as part of an investigation into the theft of nearly $100 million of public funds.
Mainly implicating civil servants, the charges represent a rare effort to hold public officials accountable for graft in the East African nation, Reuters reported.
The accused included the head of the National Youth Service and the chief internal auditor at the national treasury, chief prosecutor Noordin Mohamed Haji told a news conference.
Though President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged to stamp out corruption when he was first elected in 2013, there have been no high-profile convictions since he took office, the agency noted. Reuters wasn’t able to reach any of the accused for comment.
Meanwhile, Haji said the probe would now look into the role played by local banks in the case, in which youth service officials allegedly stole government funds by creating fictitious invoices and receiving multiple payments on one supplier invoice. The state organization trains young people and deploys them to projects ranging from construction to traffic control.
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