Former Ngong Ward Member of County Assembly has been jailed for two years and four months for soliciting bribe.
Paul Super Kanume was was found guilty by Nairobi Anti-corruption Court Chief Magistrate Lawrence Mugambi.
He was found guilty of three charges of corruptly soliciting for bribe and corruptly receiving 38,000 from a vote to facilitate allocation of a plot to construct a car wash.
He was however given an alternative of a fine of 600,000.
The magistrate said prosecution established their case which led to conviction of the former county representative.
“Going by the oral account of the complaint which is validated to a big extent by the audio-visual and transcript evidence referred to in the foregoing, I find evidence of soliciting is explicit” ruled Mugambi.
While convicting the accused on the third count, he said prosecution proved the charge beyond reasonable doubt.
” The accused was constructively the receipt of the corrupt benefit and evidence clearly unmasked as a principal perpetrator that was standing in the shadows” ruled Mugambi.
Mr Paul Supet had been charged that on 13 the September 2013 being a person employed in the public body to wit a member of county assembly for ngong ward corruptly socited kshs 30, 000 from. Godfrey ayanga omanga as an inducement to construct a car wash business site, a matter relating to the aid public body.
Prosecution further alleged that, on the 19 of September 2013, at Ngong Chief’s offices in Kajiado County , being the person employed by a public body as the Member of County Assembly for Ngong Ward corruptly through an agent George Kimemia Wairimu received a benefit of Kshs. 38,000 from Geoffrey Ayaga Omanga as an inducement so as to facilitate allocation of a plot within Ngong Stadium to Omanga to construct a car wash business site , a matter relating to the affairs of the said public body.
Supet asked the court to consider that he had a young family and that he had lost his wife during the trial period.
