Hassan Wario
Kenyan civil servant and politician
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Hassan Gurach Wario Arero (born 24 November 1970) is a Kenyan civil servant and politician, who has been Kenyan Ambassador to Austria since 2018. He was Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Culture, and the Arts of Kenya from 2013 to 2018.[1][2]
Hassan Wario Arero | |
|---|---|
Wario in 2013 | |
| Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Culture and the Arts | |
| In office 15 May 2013 – February 2018 | |
| President | Uhuru Kenyatta |
| Succeeded by | Rashid Echesa |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 November 1970 |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Nairobi (BA) University of East Anglia (PhD) |
Arero hails from the Borana community.[3] He was educated at the University of Nairobi (BA, Anthropology, 1995), and a master's degree in Advanced Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the University of East Anglia.[4] He completed his PhD in anthropology at the University of East Anglia in 2013.
Abuse of office charges
Wario was charged with corruption and theft during his tenure as a Minister of Sports. The offenses occurred during the 2016 Olympics. He was found guilty of misappropriation of $490,000 in taxpayer funds, by Milimani Anti-Corruption Courts in Nairobi on September 15, 2021. In what is described as a miscarriage of justice by the judiciary, he was surprisingly only fined $33,000; by paying the fine, he avoided a six-year prison term.[5][6]
