L. MathekaEx-Sports CS Wario sentensed to six years in prison
Reading Time: 2min | Thu. 16.09.21. | 14:26
A Nairobi Court has on Wednesday 15th September 2021 found Wario guilty of abuse of office.
Former Sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario has been sentenced to six years in prison or pay a fine of Shs 3.6 million having been found guilty of abuse of office during the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Hassan Wario will pay that ksh3.6million fine and announce his bid to vie for Governor of Mandera County next Month. He just got the boost he wanted. A convicted criminal places you top on the list of required credentials to be elected in Kenya
— Lord Abraham Mutai (@ItsMutai) September 16, 2021
His co-accused National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) deputy treasurer and Chef de Mission of Team Kenya to the Rio Olympics Stephen Arap Soi will pay a fine of Shs105 million or serve a-12-year prison term.
Former Sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario to pay a fine of Ksh 3.6 million after a conviction over Rio 2016 Olympics financial scandal. You steal 50Million but pay 3 Million as fine. You walk home 47 million richer.
— Cyprian, Is Nyakundi (@CisNyakundi) September 16, 2021
The case involving a fiasco of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games was filed in 2018 against Wario and six others and has dragged in court for three years. Wario was found guilty of abusing his office, which led to the loss of public funds during the Games in Rio de Janeiro. He was also found guilty of willfully failing to comply with applicable procedures and guidelines relating to the management of public funds.
Anti-corruption magistrate Elizabeth Juma on Wednesday 15 September said Wario took advantage of his office and added an additional three people to the list of Team Kenya and had them paid allowances yet he had no mandate to do so.
The former CS, after leaving cabinet was appointed Kenya’s Ambassador to Austria but was dropped in May 2019, eight months after he faced abuse of office charges under the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crime Act.
