Besieged ex-Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has denied improperly receiving Sh14 million in a Sh68 million corruption case. On Monday Kidero was charged alongside 15 others with bribery and abuse of office after the EACC concluded that they had colluded to defraud Nairobi County of Sh68 million. Kidero, Nairobi governor from 2013 to 2017, said the Sh14 million that he received from lawyer Stephen Kariuki Mburu was for the sale of his high-end Toyota Lexus vehicle. An earlier payment of Sh10 million in 2011 raised the total to Sh68 million. Kidero was responding to a front-page story in the New Vision on Monday about how the Sh68 million was shared out by Mburu.

Source: The Star April 30, 2019 14:26 UTC