KENYA REVENUE AUTHORITY OFFICER ARRESTED IN KISUMU OVER CORRUPTION
Posted by African Press International on October 13, 2010
By Agwanda Jowi
A Senior Kenya Revenue Authority officer attached to Western Regional Office in Kisumu was last evening arrested by Kenya Anti Corruption Commission officer after receiving a Sh.30, 000 bribe.
Albert Gachanga, an Assistant Commissioner Customs Department was arrested after the officers from KACC set a trap through the man he had asked for the amount.
Principal Public Relations Officers at KACC Nicholas Simami says the complainant who is a security guard in Kisii town was asked the money by the KRA officer in order to secure a release of his vehicle which was being held at the revenue yard.
The complainant reported the matter to the anti-corruption and soon a trap was laid.
The officer requested the complainant to send the money through mobile money transfer not knowing that KACC officers were trailing the transaction.
He was arrested at the Kisumu Swan centre, where KRA offices are located when he was releasing the vehicle to the complainant.
Simami warned that KACC is already following various individuals within the government and private sectors over corruption cases and soon they will be arrested if they dont change their ways.
The arrest comes barely two days to the official launch of the Kisumu Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission regional office to be presided over by the KACC director PLO Lumumba.
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