Hassan Gurach Wario Arero (OBE) (born 24 November 1970) is a Kenyan civil servant and politician, who has been Kenyan Ambassador to

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since 2018. He was Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Culture, and the Arts of

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from 2013 to 2018. Arero hails from the Borana community. He was educated at the

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(BA, Anthropology, 1995), and a master's degree in Advanced Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the

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. He completed his PhD in anthropology at the

in 2013.

Abuse of office charges

Wario was charged with corruption and theft during his tenure as a

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. 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.

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