Hassan Wario Arero
Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Culture and the Arts
In office
15 May 2013  February 2018
PresidentUhuru Kenyatta
Succeeded byRashid Echesa
Personal details
Born (1970-11-24) 24 November 1970
NationalityKenyan
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Nairobi (BA)
University of East Anglia (PhD)

Hassan Gurach Wario Arero (OBE) (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]

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]

References

  1. "Hassan Arero CV". Nairobi: State House. 25 April 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  2. "Parliamentary committees finalize reports on 19 vetted nominees". Capital News. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  3. Joy Hendry, Laara Fitznor (2012). Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour: Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect. Routledge. p. 285. ISBN 978-1136331152.
  4. "Directory of Chevening Alumni". Chevening UK Government Scholarships. 24 August 2014. Archived from the original on 27 January 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  5. "Former Sports CS Hassan Wario walks home after paying Sh3.6 million fine". 16 September 2021.
  6. "Court slaps Sports ex-CS Hassan Wario with Sh3.6m fine, 6 years jail in default". 16 September 2021.


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