{"id":2454,"date":"2025-02-12T11:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2025-02-12T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:58:36","slug":"ex-kiambu-governor-ferdinand-waititu-and-wife-found-guilty-of-sh588-million-tender-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/ex-kiambu-governor-ferdinand-waititu-and-wife-found-guilty-of-sh588-million-tender-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu and Wife Found Guilty of Sh588 Million Tender Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nairobi, February 12- Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu and his wife, Susan Wangari, have been convicted of fraud in connection with the irregular awarding of a <strong>Sh588 million<\/strong> road construction tender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also found guilty are <strong>Charles Chege and Beth Wangeci<\/strong>, the directors of Testimony Enterprises\u2014the company that received the tender\u2014along with several county officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delivering the verdict, <strong>Chief Magistrate Thomas Nzioki<\/strong> upheld the prosecution\u2019s case after previously ruling that the accused had a case to answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waititu and his co-accused faced multiple charges, including <strong>fraud, conflict of interest, money laundering, abuse of office, and dealing with suspect property<\/strong>, stemming from allegations that the tender was fraudulently awarded to a company linked to Waititu\u2019s family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, February 12- Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu and his wife, Susan Wangari, have been convicted of fraud in connection with the irregular awarding of a Sh588 million road construction tender. Also found guilty are Charles Chege and Beth Wangeci, the directors of Testimony Enterprises\u2014the company that received the tender\u2014along with several county officials. Delivering the verdict, Chief Magistrate Thomas Nzioki upheld the prosecution\u2019s case after previously ruling that the accused had a case to answer. Waititu and his co-accused faced multiple charges, including fraud, conflict of interest, money laundering, abuse of office, and dealing with suspect property, stemming from allegations that the tender was fraudulently awarded to a company linked to Waititu\u2019s family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}