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Ex-senator Joy Gwendo sentenced to two years in prison over Sh1.7m theft

Former Senator Joy Gwendo at Milimani Law Courts on Friday. (George Njunge, Standard)

A decision by former Senator Joy Gwendo to confer to herself money belonging to a cooperative society has landed her in jail.

Her freedom was curtailed yesterday after Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti slapped a two-year jail sentence on her for failing to honor a plea bargain she entered into with the state to settle a Sh1.7 million she allegedly stole from a cooperative society in Kisumu.

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