BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
A Nairobi magistrate court has lifted arrest warrants against Nandi Hills Member of Parliament Charles Keter.
This is after the MP turned up in court at 2:26 PM in a bid to lift the warrant of arrest which was issued this morning.
His lawyer pleaded with the court to lift the warrant since he is the one who misled his client by taking the wrong dates.
Today in the morning court issued a warrant of arrest against Nandi Hills Member of Parliament Alfred Keter after he failed to appear in court for mention of his criminal case.
Milimani Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi issued the arrested order against the MP after he his name was called out by the court clerk and he was not present as scheduled for the pre-trial hearing of his Sh 633 million Treasury bond forgery case where he is charged alongside businessmen Arthur Sakwa and Madat Saburali.
The pre-trial conference was meant to clarify certain legal issues before the trial begins.
In the case the lawmaker and the two businessmen are charged with presenting 42 forged Treasury Bills amounting to Sh 634 million to the Central Bank of Kenya seeking payment.
The three are each out on a cash bail of Sh 2 million or a bond of Sh 5 million with a surety of similar amount.
The prosecution claims that most of the witnesses expected to testify in the case are from the Treasury and CBK.
The three have since denied 11 counts of conspiracy to defraud Central Bank of Kenya, forgeries, uttering and making false documents.
The charges against them states that the three jointly conspired to defraud CBK by presenting forged Treasury Bills valued at Sh 286 million on February 16, 2018.
MP Keter and the two co-accused persons are also accused of making a false document namely a letter head allegedly from CBK for Treasury bills amounting to Sh 347 million purporting to have been issued and singed by Maina Warui the Registrar, National Debt office at CBK.
They also faced another charged that on February 16, 2018 at CBK Nairobi county, jointly knowingly and fraudulently uttered to Kennedy Kaunda Abuga the Director of legal services at CBK 18 Treasury bills issue no. 1138, 24 Treasury bills issue no. 1148, two cheque deposits slips, two letters purportedly signed by Warui which they purported them to be genuine.
Prosecution also alleges the three jointly made similar bills on unknown dates and place of Sh 347,000,000 and Sh 272,601,095 allegedly drawn at Barclays Bank of Kenya purporting it to be genuine and valid issued by the CBK.
It is said that they were arrested minutes after they had held a meeting with CBK Governor Patrick Njoroge.
They were accused of presenting forged 90-day Treasury Bills dated 1990.
