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1.a    RAW FOOTAGE: EACC detectives arrest businessman while trying to

RAW FOOTAGE: EACC detectives arrest businessman while trying to Ethics and anti corruption commission detectives today arrested a businessman Praful Kumar with 1 million shilli...

1.b    Asian businessman arrested trying to bribe Mike Sonko KSh 1 million

Asian businessman arrested trying to bribe Mike Sonko KSh 1 million Linda Shiundu Officials from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Monday, August 20, arrested a Nairobi-based b...

Asian businessman arrested trying to bribe Mike Sonko KSh 1 million Author: Linda Shiundu Updated: 4 hours ago Views: 3951 Category: Local News

- The businessman was arrested while trying to bribe Sonko to approve construction of his hotel

- He was arrested by officials from EACC with KSh 1 million alleged to be for bribing Sonko

- Nairobi county has stopped the construction of the said hotel

- The governmnet is demolishing buildings on wetlands and pulic land

Officials from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Monday, August 20, arrested a Nairobi-based businessman for allegedly attempting to bribe Nairobi governor Mike Sonko.

The businessman identified as Praful Kumar, was seeking for the approval of Grand Monar Hotel in Gigiri, Nairobi, which is under construction when he offered Sonko a bribe of KSh 1 million.

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Praful Kumar, was seeking the approval of Grand Monar Hotel in Gigiri, Nairobi, which is under construction when he was arrested. Source: Twitter

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TUKO.co.ke understands the Nairobi County government had on August 16, 2018, stopped the construction of the hotel.

EACC South region boss George Ojowi said Kumar was arrested in Kanamai, Kilifi County while seeking approval for the hotel.

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Kumar was arrested in Kanamai, Kilifi County while seeking approval of the hotel.

The businessman will be arraigned in court on Wednesday, August, 22, to answer to corruption charges.

His arrest came barely days after Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu's wife Susan Wangare was arrested alongside 14 others for allegedly constructing buildings without observing set laws.

Waititu was later recorded in a phone conversation pleading with Sonko to release his wife who had been arrested by Nairobi City county officials.

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The national government in collaboration with the county government has embarked on a demolition spree targeting buildings erected on public and wetland land.

Asian businesses man arrested trying to bribe Mike Sonko KSh 1 million Kumar was arrested in Kanamai, Kilifi County while seeking approval of the hotel. Source: Facebook

President Uhuru Kenyatta on August 12, 2018, warned the demolition exercise would not spare anyone, regardless of who they are in the society.

"No matter how much money you have, no matter how many people in high offices you know, we will not be prevented from achieving our dreams because of impunity," he said.