{"id":207006,"date":"2025-09-13T06:40:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-justice-for-sale-explosive-bribery-claims-rock-kenyas-judiciary\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:40:55","slug":"kenya-justice-for-sale-explosive-bribery-claims-rock-kenyas-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-justice-for-sale-explosive-bribery-claims-rock-kenyas-judiciary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Justice for Sale? Explosive Bribery Claims Rock Kenya&#8217;s Judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Nairobi \u2014 Kenya&#8217;s Judiciary is once again on trial in the court of public opinion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Explosive claims of bribery, backroom deals, and &#8220;justice for sale&#8221; have resurfaced after Captain (Rtd.) Kung&#8217;u Muigai accused senior judges of taking millions in bribes to rule against him in a 33-year loan dispute with Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Kung&#8217;u, a cousin to former President Uhuru Kenyatta and patron of the National Council of Elders, narrated a dramatic tale of lost court files, phantom consent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120048.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 Kenya&#8217;s Judiciary is once again on trial in the court of public opinion. Explosive claims of bribery, backroom deals, and &#8220;justice for sale&#8221; have resurfaced after Captain (Rtd.) Kung&#8217;u Muigai accused senior judges of taking millions in bribes to rule against him in a 33-year loan dispute with Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB). Kung&#8217;u, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":207007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00240326:8d755b7d38e48769d031ac78b0b03a03:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7673,8117,5393,9830,6852,4688,430,6097,257,12004,6397,254],"class_list":["post-207006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bribery","tag-claims","tag-explosive","tag-judiciary","tag-justice","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-news","tag-rock","tag-sale","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00240326:8d755b7d38e48769d031ac78b0b03a03:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207006","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=207006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}