{"id":174211,"date":"2024-06-10T05:49:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T03:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ex-kenya-pipeline-md-tanui-15-others-acquitted-of-corruption-charges\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T05:49:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T03:49:22","slug":"kenya-ex-kenya-pipeline-md-tanui-15-others-acquitted-of-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ex-kenya-pipeline-md-tanui-15-others-acquitted-of-corruption-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ex-Kenya Pipeline Md Tanui, 15 Others Acquitted of Corruption Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi \u2014 Former Kenya Pipeline managing director Charles Tanui and fifteen others have been acquitted of corruption charges related to incidents at the State Corporation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Anti-Corruption Magistrate Felix Kombo ruled that the prosecution had failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict the defendants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Kombo emphasized that the prosecution&#8217;s responsibility was to present compelling evidence to ensure a fair judgment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;In the absence of evidence supporting the allegations against the accused&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406070402.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Former Kenya Pipeline managing director Charles Tanui and fifteen others have been acquitted of corruption charges related to incidents at the State Corporation. Anti-Corruption Magistrate Felix Kombo ruled that the prosecution had failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict the defendants. Kombo emphasized that the prosecution&#8217;s responsibility was to present compelling evidence to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":174212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[6617,258,256,7578,4723,32934,4688,430,257,6773,254,48734],"class_list":["post-174211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-acquitted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charges","tag-corruption","tag-exkenya","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-pipeline","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tanui"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}