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Former Nakuru County secretary Joseph Motari charged with graft

Former Nakuru County Secretary Joseph Motari.

The arrest and arraignment of former Nakuru County Secretary Joseph Mougusu Motari over allegation of abuse of office is a culmination of a seven-year investigation into the illegal recruitment scandal that rocked the former Governor Kinuthia Mbugua’s administration.

Mr Motari, the then powerful county secretary in the inaugural county government, was on Thursday charged before Nakuru Principal Magistrate Bernard Mararo and released on a Sh500,000 bail with a surety of a similar amount.

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