This archive report was first published on 5 November 2019.
On November 5, 2019, the Anti-Corruption Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Ruth Kanini Kitony, a Kenyan diplomat serving in Malaysia.
Kitony is wanted over embezzlement of Ksh48.9 million from the Kasarani Constituency Development Fund, which she was employed by as a District Development Officer.
Chief Magistrate Lawrence Mugambi threw out a request by her lawyers to reject the State's plea for Ms Kitony to be arrested, citing that the parent appointing ministry of Ms Kitony should have communicated to the court the position of the suspect in the graft case.
Kitony is accused of abusing her office by improperly conferring a benefit of Ksh1,033,000 to Jecinta Akoth Opondi and Maurice Odhiambo Orongo by signing vouchers as payment for supply of construction materials of Kasarani Girls' High School.
On the same day, former Kasarani MP Elizabeth Ongoro, her husband Ferdinand Masha Kenga, and six others were charged with conspiring to embezzle money from the Kasarani CDF, but they denied the charges and were released on bail.
