COURT REINSTATE CORRUPTION CHARGES AGAINST JUBILEE MP.

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Kasarani Member of Parliament John Njoroge Chege before Nairobi Anti corruption Senior magistrate Lawrence Mugambi on Tuesday February 21 ,2017.

BY NT CORRESPONDENT.

High Court has reinstated corruption charges against a Jubilee sitting Member of Parliament.

 

Justice Issac Lenaola quashed the decision by trial court Senior principal magistrate Peter Ndwiga that acquitted Kasarani legislator John Njoroge Chege over corruption charges labelled against him by Anti-agency body.

 

 “Court has no power to direct whom the prosecution will call first. The prosecution should however give notice to the defence that they will be availing other witnesses first before they call the main accuser” ruled magistrate.

Justice Lenaola also dismissed an application by the defence lawyer Kirathe Wandugi that the DPP be compelled to present Mr Abdirahman Mohammed Abdullahi as the first prosecution witness.

 

“ The Constitution requires the DPP to discharge his duties without getting any directions from any body,” Justice Lenaola ruled.

 

State counsel Helen Mutela argued that if complainant is not interested in the matter the public is then the remaining complainant since the matter is if public interest.
Anti corruption Senior magistrate Lawrence Mugambi issued summons to the complainant-Abdirahman Mohammed Abdullahi in the case and safaricom police Liason officer to appear to testify against Mr Njoroge.
He is accused on 25 of June 2013 at continental House parking yard in Nairobi, being a person employed by a public body as Parliamentary Service Commission, as a Member of Parliament Kasarani,  corruptly solicited for a benefited of Kshs. 100,000 from Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi as an inducement so as to facilitate the payment of Kshs. 3,342,716,77 being Constituency Development Fund payment for a completed Baba Dogo Secondary school tuition block.
He is  facing three count corruption related charges.

Njoroge denied soliciting Sh100,000 as inducement to facilitate payment of a project in his constituency.

 

The detectives were tipped by a contractor that the first time legislator had demand the bribe to authorise payment of Sh3.3 million from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).

 

The contractor had put up a tuition block at Baba Dogo Road Secondary School in the constituency.

 

According to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Chief Executive Halakhe Waqo, a trap was set up and the MP was arrested in a ‘sting’ operation after he had already received Sh100, 000.

 

He was granted a Sh1.5 million bond.

 

Hearing on 12 and 13 June 2017.

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