Recently, West Asembo MCA Ambrose Akuno admitted to have received Kshs. 150, 000 from the Siaya county governor’s office as a bribe.
According to the MCA, the money was to buy his silence on corruption issues in the county following the misappropriation of over Kshs. 600 million.
Akuno who had initially said that he does not know the exact office to return the money now says he will not be able to return the money since he has already used it.
He told three DCI detectives who questioned him at his home in Rarieda that he will not return the money as it had funded a borehole project in his ward.
The anti-graft agency had dispatched the detectives to get a statement from him on Thursday following his confession that he received the bribe.
On Tuesday this week, Akuno said that the money had been given to him by colleague who had been sent by the county government.
The MCA who was ailing thought the money had been given to him to show compassion but he realized later that his colleagues had also been given some money.
According to Akuno, the MCAs received up to Kshs.290,000 so that they could pass the 2020/2021 County’s Appropriation Bill. The MCAs had refused to pass the bill since there was no explanation as to why bursaries had not been released, Project Management Committee (PMC) funds not paid and statutory deductions not remitted.
A day after his confession, Siaya governor Cornel Rasanga refuted the claims that he had bribed the MCAs terming them as nonsense.
Last week, speaker of the Siaya County Assembly George Okode denied claims that Siaya MCAs had been compromised by the executive to cover up the over Ksh 600 million graft in the county saying that those were mere rumors.
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