{"id":21352,"date":"2015-11-23T23:59:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-banks-risk-losing-licences-for-money\/"},"modified":"2015-11-23T23:59:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:59:17","slug":"kenya-banks-risk-losing-licences-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-banks-risk-losing-licences-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya banks risk losing licences for money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Kenya&#8217;s President Uhuru Kenyatta Monday warned banks involved in money laundering that they risk losing their licenses.}<\/p>\n<p>The president, who was speaking during his annual address to the nation, said that after consultations with the central bank governor, banks engaged in the vice will be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From today, we have agreed that those banks that break our anti-money laundering laws and regulations will at a minimum lose their banking licenses,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kenyatta, spoke strongly against corruption in the country, declaring it a threat to national security.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9307 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kenyatta.jpg\" alt=\"President Uhuru Kenyatta during a past media briefing.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>THE EAST AFRICAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Kenya&#8217;s President Uhuru Kenyatta Monday warned banks involved in money laundering that they risk losing their licenses.} The president, who was speaking during his annual address to the nation, said that after consultations with the central bank governor, banks engaged in the vice will be shut down. &#8220;From today, we have agreed that those banks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070341,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21352.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21352.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21352.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21352.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21352.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21352.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21352"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21352"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}