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Vietnamese police arrested the country's deputy foreign minister on Thursday for allegedly receiving bribes connected to a repatriation flight program during the pandemic, officials said. In recent months the communist nation has ramped up an anti-corruption drive, targeting government officials and business people. On Thursday, the Ministry of Public Security issued a statement saying To Anh Dung and two other officials had been arrested as part of an investigation into a bribery scandal connected to repatriation flights for Vietnamese citizens since 2020. Police searched the residences and workplaces of the three on Thursday. No other details on the case were revealed. The 58-year-old Dung was appointed Vietnam's deputy foreign minister in 2019, after holding various ...

The IEBC has termed as unconstitutional the proposal in the BBI to allocate 70 constituencies to some 28 counties. Chairman wafula chebukati said while BBI promoters are right to create the constituencies they errared in allocating constituencies specific counties. The chairman said this before the Joint Justice and legal Affairs committees of parliament on the constitution of Kenya (Ammendment) Bill 2020. The bill has created additional 70 constituencies to push the number to 360. The constituencies are distributed among 28 of the 47 counties. He further said his team was never consulted by the BBI promoters on the additional constituencies. The IEBC boss at the same time defended the commission for the delays in the beginning the process of delimitation of the boundari...

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Vietnam’s Deputy Foreign Minister Arrested Over Pandemic Flight Bribe Scandal

BBI proposal on distribution on 70 constituencies.