COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
A Man who requested a 2.9 M bribe from United Africa Evangelical ministries officials by pretending that he would help them write off their KRA taxes has been charged. EACC claims that Phillip Kilonzo fraudulently obtained money from a children’s home associated to the ministry by pretending that he would help the officers from the […]
Noah Okech Oluoch was arraigned before Milimani anti-corruption Court magistrate Thomas Nzyoki where he was charged with three counts of forgery. It was alleged that he fraudulently obtained Sh1,445,066 salary and allowances from the agency after being employed using a forged degree certificate. Prosecution claimed that he had forged a master’s degree in business administration […]
Johnstone Njuguna appeared before Chief Magistrate Benard Ochoi where he devised the charge. It is alleged that on diverse dates between March 14 and 20, 2024, he unlawfully caused his Iphone to manipulate the Safaricom Mpesa App system with intent to gain access and initiated Mpesa transactions. He denied the charge and pleaded with the […]
Sepulchral rights are rights which are given to the most immediate member of the family or person who was living with the deceased. According to city lawyer Shadrack Wambui, these immediate family members are given the right and privilege of interring, burying or deciding the place of burial of the deceased. Wambui says a Nairobi […]
A Shanzu court discharged 48 people who had been charged with smoking and selling Shisha ruling that their charge sheet did not disclose an offense. Senior Principal Magistrate Joe Omido ruled that the Shisha ban was never regularized within 9 months as the high court ordered. Omido ruled that the High Court gave an extension […]
Former CS Rashid Echesa’s lawyers have now called for his immediate release on bail saying their client is seriously ill and if he stays one more night in cells he might die. In a letter to the DCI, Lawyer Danstan Omari says Echesa is under treatment after being diagnosed with a serious medical condition and […]
