Court To Rule On Gachagua’s Case Withdrawal On Thursday

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 9 – The Anti-corruption court is expected to rule on Thursday, November 10 on an application by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji seeking to withdraw the Sh7.4b graft case against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua who is charged alongside nine others.

The DPP in his submissions to the court on Wednesday said that the decision was arrived at after the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) had failed to give full disclosure of the evidence against Gachagua and his co-accused.

The DPP says that lack of evidence is what forms the basis of his application and pointed fingers at the DCI saying they failed to complete investigations.

While cross-examining the lead investigator in the case Obadiah Kuria, Gachagua’s lawyer Senior Counsel Kioko Kilukumi said that his client’s arrest was politically motivated asking the court to drop the charges.

“Without completing the investigations the first accused was arrested on Friday, July 23, 2021, at 3 am in Mathira, Nyeri County,” he posed.

He said that his client had been subjected to humiliation and that the vehicles in which he was transported were driven at dangerous speeds from Nyeri to DCI headquarters where he was he arrived at 9am on Friday but was held for the weekend before being arraigned in court on Monday the following week.