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FINA Bureau’s Ben Ekumbo Must Stay in Jail As Police Investigate Sex Abuse Claims
- Updated: November 30, 2016
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Team Kenya’s Rio Olympics deputy chief of mission Ben Ekumbo, FINA Bureau member, will stay in remand prison until December 6 after the country’s anti-corruption court declined to grant him bail on Monday.
Senior Principal Magistrate Joyce Gandani denied the sporting blazer’s bond application after prosecutors told the court that they were investigating the Kenya Swimmers Federation chairman for alleged sexual abuse of young swimmers.
Gandani announced in court that other officials of the National Olympics Committee (Nock) facing charges related to theft and mismanagement of Team Kenya in Rio back in August, had intimidated their junior staff. Some of those staff members are now prosecution witnesses and have been fired from the jobs as a result, media reports suggest.
Ekumbo was arrested two weeks ago in a police raid on his house in Westlands, Nairobi, where bales of sports clothing and equipment were said to have been found, the man himself reported to have been hiding under his bed when they found him.
The Kenyan member of the FINA leadership group has offered to refund the $10,000 value of the Nike kit he is alleged to have stolen. Gandani ruled that Ekumbo be remanded at the Industrial Area Remand Prison until December 6, when the case will be taken to the …
