{"id":243315,"date":"2026-09-05T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-court-quashes-legal-opinion-clearing-ca-payments-to-wambui-linked-firm\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:24:14","slug":"kenya-court-quashes-legal-opinion-clearing-ca-payments-to-wambui-linked-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-court-quashes-legal-opinion-clearing-ca-payments-to-wambui-linked-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Court Quashes Legal Opinion Clearing CA Payments to Wambui-Linked Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept. 4 &#8211; The High Court has quashed a legal opinion that cleared the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) to make payments linked to a company associated with its former chairperson Mary Wambui Mungai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Justice Lawrence Mugambi declared unconstitutional the October 1, 2024 opinion by Solicitor-General Shadrack Mose, saying the Attorney-General&#8217;s office had exceeded its mandate by determining a conflict-of-interest matter that should be investigated by the Ethics and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609040404.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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, Kenya, Sept. 4 &#8211; The High Court has quashed a legal opinion that cleared the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) to make payments linked to a company associated with its former chairperson Mary Wambui Mungai. Justice Lawrence Mugambi declared unconstitutional the October 1, 2024 opinion by Solicitor-General Shadrack Mose, saying the Attorney-General&#8217;s office had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":243316,"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":[258,256,21207,6185,7559,4688,430,6393,257,12275,6841,35723,254,55348],"class_list":["post-243315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clearing","tag-court","tag-firm","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-legal","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-payments","tag-quashes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wambuilinked"],"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\/243315","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=243315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}