13:34 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe Kenyan government is refusing to extradite two of its citizens accused of stealing millions of pounds on the island of Jersey.<\/p>\n
Samuel Gichuru, former head of Kenya’s power company, and former Energy Minister Chris Okemo are accused of taking kickbacks from multinationals.<\/p>\n
The Jersey authorities have issued arrest warrants.<\/p>\n
The Kenyan newspaper, the Star, broke the news and has called on the government to hand over the two men.<\/p>\n
Bailiff Sir Philip Bailhache, the top legal official on the island of Jersey, has accused Mr Gichuru and Mr Okemo, now an MP in Kenya, of 53 economic crimes.<\/p>\n
One concerns a deal with a Finnish firm to construct a power station 10 years ago near Mombasa, Kenya’s second largest city.<\/p>\n
At the time Mr Gichuru was the head of the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC).<\/p>\n
He is accused of working with Mr Okemo to bank more than \u00a33m ($5m) from the deal.<\/p>\n
The two are accused of taking millions more in kickbacks from British, Norwegian and German engineering firms, as well as a US communications giant.<\/p>\n
But the Kenyan government has told the BBC it will not hand the men over for now.<\/p>\n
The director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, PLO Lumumba, says other politicians are also implicated in the deals.<\/p>\n
Corruption should be declared a national disaster in Kenya, Mr Lumumba added.<\/p>\n
This is not the first time Mr Gichuru has been in the anti-corruption spotlight.<\/p>\n
In 2003, a leaked report of an investigation by the Kenyan government said he had plundered the state-owned electricity corporation for several years – an allegation his lawyer denied.<\/p>\n
That report, like several other anti-corruption investigations, was shelved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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