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Governors fight corruption claims, rubbish graft report

Murang’a governor Mwangi wa Iria. Governors have distanced themselves from the probe. [File, Standard]

Governors serving their second terms yesterday rejected a report by the anti-graft agency that highlighted demand for bribes in the counties.

County chiefs who were in office in 2016 when the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission undertook the graft survey, dismissed the findings while first-term governors blamed the rot on their predecessors.

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