{"id":203457,"date":"2025-07-28T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-appeal-judges-reject-abuse-of-discretion-claim-in-corruption-conviction\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:37:00","slug":"kenya-appeal-judges-reject-abuse-of-discretion-claim-in-corruption-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-appeal-judges-reject-abuse-of-discretion-claim-in-corruption-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Appeal Judges Reject Abuse of Discretion Claim in Corruption Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Aloys Owino Owegi challenging a High Court decision that upheld his conviction for corruption, ruling that there was no abuse of discretion in declining to reinstate his withdrawn appeal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">A three-judge bench comprising Justices Patrick Kiage, Jamila Mohammed, and Weldon Korir ruled that Owegi&#8217;s application to set aside an order withdrawing his appeal at the High Court was properly rejected, noting that his claim of a &#8220;mistaken withdrawal&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507280386.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 The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Aloys Owino Owegi challenging a High Court decision that upheld his conviction for corruption, ruling that there was no abuse of discretion in declining to reinstate his withdrawn appeal. A three-judge bench comprising Justices Patrick Kiage, Jamila Mohammed, and Weldon Korir ruled that Owegi&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":203458,"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":[5099,258,256,8992,8667,18452,4723,51629,7031,4688,430,257,6654,254],"class_list":["post-203457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-claim","tag-conviction","tag-corruption","tag-discretion","tag-judges","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-reject","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/203457","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=203457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}