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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: ColfaxRegular, 'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069', 'Nimbus Sans TW01', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15.6px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;">The report stated that last year, staff at CA made 421 trips both local and overseas to attend conferences, field visits, training and workshops, most of which were unaccounted for.</p></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: ColfaxRegular, 'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069', 'Nimbus Sans TW01', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15.6px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;">Trouble has however persisted at the CA board even as an Airtel letter to CA revealed that Mr Wilbert Choge had attempted to seek a bribe.</p></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: ColfaxRegular, 'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069', 'Nimbus Sans TW01', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15.6px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;"><strong>BRIBE ALLEGATION</strong></p></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: ColfaxRegular, 'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069', 'Nimbus Sans TW01', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15.6px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;">Airtel CEO Adil El Youssefi in the letter says that Choge openly solicited a bribe to influence the board not to push Airtel to pay Sh2.7 billion for renewal of its license.</p></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: ColfaxRegular, 'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069', 'Nimbus Sans TW01', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15.6px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;">Mr Choge together with his colleagues Mr Ken Nyaundi, Ms Grace Munjuri, Prof Levi Obonyo, Ms Hellen Kinoti, Ms Beatrice Opee and Mr Peter Mutie are purportedly in office against a court order that disbanded the entire board in May.</p></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: ColfaxRegular, 'AvantGardeGothicITCW01B 731069', 'Nimbus Sans TW01', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15.6px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;">The board has been cited for contempt in a case that could see the entire board stripped off their duties again, stalling the regulator’s activities.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 15.6px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 15.6px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 17px; font-family: Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light'; line-height: 25px;"><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Matiang-i-declines-to-intervene-in-CA-crisis-/-/996/2902908/-/u92or4z/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Matiang-i-declines-to-intervene-in-CA-crisis-/-/996/2902908/-/u92or4z/-/index.html</a></p></div> </div></body>
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