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Grave matter: Two fined Sh77 million over cemetery scandal

By Paul Ogemba | 7yrs ago

Boniface Okerosi Misera in the dock at a Milimani court during the hearing of an appeal he had lodged. [George Njunge, Standard]

A former top government official and a land surveyor have been fined Sh79m for receiving kickbacks in the controversial purchase of a cemetery land.

Boniface Okerosi, a former procurement manager at the ministry of Local Government and land surveyor Cephas Kamande became the latest casualties of the Sh283 million Nairobi city cemetery land scandal when Lady Justice Hedwig Ong’udi declined to overturn their conviction.

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