{"id":187170,"date":"2024-12-24T00:57:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-senator-cherargei-calls-for-tougher-anti-corruption-measures-citing-chinas-approach\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T00:57:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:57:23","slug":"kenya-senator-cherargei-calls-for-tougher-anti-corruption-measures-citing-chinas-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-senator-cherargei-calls-for-tougher-anti-corruption-measures-citing-chinas-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Senator Cherargei Calls for Tougher Anti-Corruption Measures, Citing China&#8217;s Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nairobi \u2014 Nandi Senator Kiprotich Cherargei has proposed adopting a stringent approach to fighting corruption, similar to China&#8217;s, which includes publicly executing individuals convicted of graft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Cherargei made the suggestion in reaction to recent reports of the Chinese government executing a former state official over corruption charges amounting to $412 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He argued that Kenya needs to implement harsher measures to combat corruption, which he described as a pervasive issue across all&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412230400.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 Nandi Senator Kiprotich Cherargei has proposed adopting a stringent approach to fighting corruption, similar to China&#8217;s, which includes publicly executing individuals convicted of graft. Cherargei made the suggestion in reaction to recent reports of the Chinese government executing a former state official over corruption charges amounting to $412 million. He argued that Kenya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":187171,"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":[258,256,10365,10111,6137,44297,9889,6339,4688,430,7305,257,7798,254,30259],"class_list":["post-187170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anticorruption","tag-approach","tag-calls","tag-cherargei","tag-chinas","tag-citing","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-measures","tag-news","tag-senator","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tougher"],"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\/187170","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=187170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}