Two former top technocrats and a businessman have been sent to jail and handed fines by a Nairobi Court, for conspiring to defraud the government 8.9m shillings in 2008. Former Tourism Permanent Secretary Rebecca Nabutola, former Kenya Tourism Board Managing Director Achieng Ong'ong'a and tour operator Duncan Muriuki were jailed for between 4 and 7 years, with fines of between one and 17.8m shillings, after they were found guilty of illegal payments of Ksh 8.9m for a tour to Maasai Mara by President Kibaki and top government officials in 2008. But as Francis Gachuri reports, analysts say it was too early to describe the conviction of the trio as a breakthrough in the fight against high level corruption.

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Ex-Tourism Officials Jailed for Fraud in Kenya

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• Tourism Officials Jailed for Fraud