By Agwanda Saye

A Kenyan elected Member of Parliament is to be charged in court to face corruption charges after he was caught red handed taking a bribe of kshs 100,000 after he had demanded kshs 150,000 from a businessman over a Constituency Development Project.

Kasarani MP John Njoroge who is a former Deputy Mayor of Nairobi was arrested at a cty restyaurant as he received kshs 1000,000 part of the bribe he had demanded.

His arrest came about after officials from the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission set a trap on him.

According to Kenya’s anti-Corruption Chief Executive Officer Halakhe Waqo,they received a complaint from a contractor in the constituency that the MP was demanding a bribe of Kshs 150,000 to enable him authorize his payment of kshs 3.3million from the CDF project.

“The payment was for the work the contractor had done on Baba Dogo Road Secondary School” said Waqo.

The MP however denied the allegations asn he was escorted in police car after several questioning at the Commission’s headquarters.