Kenya's Vice-President Moody Awori has refused to resign after being linked to a corruption scandal that has shaken the Kenyan government

BBC News:

It implicates senior figures in a multi-million dollar scam aimed at raising money for political campaigns.

Mr Awori defiantly protested his innocence a day after the finance minister resigned "to clear his name".

The allegations were made by the former anti-corruption tsar who says he will testify before Kenyan investigators.

After his election victory in 2002, President Mwai Kibaki appointed John Githongo to help root out corruption.

But Mr Githongo resigned a year ago and fled to the UK, amid reports that his life had been threatened because of his anti-corruption work.

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