How UK sleuths unearthed Kenya ‘Chickengate’ scandal

An Interim Independent Electoral Commission training session for presiding officers to oversee the 2010 constitutional referendum. PHOTO | FILE

The four-year investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into allegations of British firms dishing out bribes codenamed ‘chicken’ to Kenyan officials to secure deals reads like a chapter off one of Shakespeare’s plays.

The multi-million-shilling corruption scam has now acquired the tag ‘chickengate’ and takes its rightful place in Kenya’s hall of shame which features other mega scandals such as the Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing.

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