{"id":193609,"date":"2025-03-15T18:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-police-inspector-susan-muiruri-jailed-for-2yrs-over-bribe-to-free-suspects\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:52:54","slug":"kenya-police-inspector-susan-muiruri-jailed-for-2yrs-over-bribe-to-free-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-police-inspector-susan-muiruri-jailed-for-2yrs-over-bribe-to-free-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Police Inspector Susan Muiruri Jailed for 2yrs Over Bribe to Free Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>A Nairobi Anti-Corruption Court has sentenced Police Inspector Susan Muiruri to two years in prison after she was found guilty of soliciting and receiving a Sh10,000 bribe to unlawfully facilitate the release of two suspects from police custody.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">In a ruling delivered by Principal Magistrate Isabellah Barasa, she was additionally given an alternative Sh550,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The court convicted Muiruri on two counts of receiving a bribe, in violation of Section 6(1)(a) as read with Section 18 of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140406.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 A Nairobi Anti-Corruption Court has sentenced Police Inspector Susan Muiruri to two years in prison after she was found guilty of soliciting and receiving a Sh10,000 bribe to unlawfully facilitate the release of two suspects from police custody. In a ruling delivered by Principal Magistrate Isabellah Barasa, she was additionally given an alternative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[25917,258,256,13133,6544,15597,5696,4688,430,50874,257,662,254,26238,4360],"class_list":["post-193609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-2yrs","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bribe","tag-free","tag-inspector","tag-jailed","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-muiruri","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-susan","tag-suspects"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193609","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=193609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}