BY SAM ALFAN.
More woes are following Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji after two more petitions were filed seeking his removal from office.
The family of late Silas Ita and Joshua Waiganjo, an Administration Police officer filed the petitions before the Public Service Commission (PSC), bringing the petitions seeking Haji’s removal to five.
Grace Ita, the wife of the late businessman says the DPP failed his duty and obligation to commence prosecution against Court of Appeal Judge Sankale ole Kantai whom they accuse of fraudulently transferring shares belonging to the family in a company he (Ita) with late Dutch Tob Cohen.
In the petition, the wife says that Judge Kantai after transferring shares to himself, he later transferred to Sarah Wairimu the wife of the late Cohen.
According to Grace, investigations from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) revealed that Cohen was not aware of the fraudulent transfer of shares, which was allegedly done by Justice Kantai in 1999.
The transfer, she said, was only discovered when he made the application in 2019 to the Registrar of companies, synchronically meeting his untimely and spine-chilling death, in July 2019, barely three days after the discovery.
The petitioner through her lawyers Danstan Omari and Shadrack Wambui said the DPP has demonstrated incompetence in the performance of his duties and should not hold public office.
On his part, Waiganjo seeks the removal of Haji from office for mounting malicious prosecution against him. He was later acquitted by the court.
According to Waiganjo, he was an AP reservist with the National Police Service and was later promoted to the rank of assistant commissioner of police in 2003.
He further claims he served in the police until 2012 when he was arrested for participating in the armed robbery of one Francis Kamau and he was later charged at the Naivasha law courts.
Waiganjo says he was prosecuted on account of being a police imposter, which the court later ruled as malicious prosecution.
He further argues he will be seeking compensation for being prosecuted falsely which tainted his name as a public figure.
