Lawyer Joseph Wagara for seventeen suppliers to the National Youth Service has moved to court seeking orders to unfreeze their bank accounts leaving Milimani law courts on Wednesday October 14, 2015.
BY SAM ALFAN.
The proprietors of seventeen suppliers to the National Youth Service have moved to court seeking orders to unfreeze their bank accounts and further stop the police from arresting them over the transaction with State Corporation.
The applicants Peter Omari Otwoma, Josephine Kabura Irungu and Caroline Njambi Kinuthuia claim that investigation being carried on by the banking fraud in the account is unconstitutional.
Through their Joseph Wagara, told court that police should be halted from carry out investigation and the intended prosecution over the alleged theft of money from NYS.
The lawyer told Justice Joseph Onguto, that the applicant’s bank accounts have been frozen including several advocates over allegation fraudulent transaction.
He said that sometime in February and November 2015 the applicants sold and delivered road construction materials to NYS projects sites in Kibera, Mukuru kaw Njenga and Mukurui kwa Reuiben in Nairobi County and were duly paid.
Mr Wagara submitted that on July 20, police officers from banking fraud investigation unit arrested the applicants under the guise that they had stolen and fraudulently acquired money from NYS.
They have made statements and given out document concerning the transaction to indicate that no theft occurred.
The lawyer told the court that police have converted a purely commercial transaction to a criminal case.
The court certified the application urgent and directed that the same be served director of public prosecution, director of criminal investigation and banking fraud and the matter be inter parties on Monday 19.
