Kenya: High-profile Kenyan MP charged with corruption

A high-profile Kenyan opposition lawmaker was on Wednesday charged in court with corruption in connection with a land transfer deal that cost a state firm 272-million shillings (about $3,5-million), police said. William Ruto was charged together with a former commissioner of lands, Samuel Mwaita, in a Nairobi magistrate's court with "obtaining money by false pretences and handling false documents", said a spokesperson for the anti-corruption police.