'Graft ministers' return in Kenya

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Two Kenyan ministers who resigned after corruption allegations nine months ago have been reinstated in their old jobs.

George Saitoti and Kiraitu Murungi are both close allies of President Mwai Kibaki who came to power in 2002, pledging to fight graft.

Mr Saitoti resigned after being linked to Kenya's Goldenberg affair, but a court later cleared him of wrongdoing.

Mr Murungi resigned after a tape allegedly showed him trying to block an inquiry into the Anglo Leasing affair.

This scandal during Mr Kibaki's rule involved contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars being awarded to fictitious firms for items such as hi-tech passports.

A secret recording - heard by the BBC - allegedly showed Mr Murungi, previously justice minister, asking John Githongo, Kenya's former chief anti-corruption investigator, to slow down an inquiry into Anglo Leasing.

Former Finance Minister David Mwiraria also resigned after his name was linked to the scandal.

The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission recommended Mr Mwiraria and others be charged over the Anglo Leasing scandal, but Mr Murungi was not on the list, prompting calls for his reinstatement.

Mr Githongo has accused the president of doing nothing over the Anglo Leasing scam.

The so-called "Goldenberg affair" - Kenya's biggest ever scandal which pre-dates Mr Kibaki's administration - involved huge sums of public money in a bogus gold and diamond export operation.

Mr Saitoti served as vice-president and finance minister in the previous administration under President Daniel arap Moi before switching sides.