{"id":222524,"date":"2026-02-01T23:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-it-is-not-fair-eacc-ceo-says-graft-claims-on-northern-kenya-unproven\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:23:17","slug":"kenya-it-is-not-fair-eacc-ceo-says-graft-claims-on-northern-kenya-unproven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-it-is-not-fair-eacc-ceo-says-graft-claims-on-northern-kenya-unproven\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;It Is Not Fair&#8217; &#8211; EACC CEO Says Graft Claims On Northern Kenya Unproven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) CEO Abdi Mohamud has dismissed claims that Northern Kenya is uniquely corrupt, describing such assertions as unfair and misleading.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">He emphasized that corruption is a national challenge, not confined to any one region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking amid heightened scrutiny of leaders from northern frontier counties over allegations of bribery and embezzlement of public funds, Mohamud clarified that the EACC investigates cases strictly in line with the law,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601300341.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 Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) CEO Abdi Mohamud has dismissed claims that Northern Kenya is uniquely corrupt, describing such assertions as unfair and misleading. He emphasized that corruption is a national challenge, not confined to any one region. Speaking amid heightened scrutiny of leaders from northern frontier counties over allegations of bribery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":222525,"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":[258,256,7213,8117,24619,7724,10638,4688,430,257,4282,254,33836],"class_list":["post-222524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ceo","tag-claims","tag-eacc","tag-fair","tag-graft","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unproven"],"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\/222524","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=222524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}