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Sh7m spent on ambassador’s UK apartment

The Government has spent Sh7.2 million of taxpayers’ money to rent accommodation for the Kenya High Commissioner to London.

A parliamentary committee unearthed the damning expenditure incurred because Joseph Muchemi, the immediate former High Commissioner, declined to surrender the official residence for incoming envoy Ephraim Ngare.

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