COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
Embattled Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o has challenged her intended prosecution in the Sh 6 B Telcom deal saying she is being targeted for blowing whistle on government spending. Nyakang’o name is among those being invested for allegedly committing fraud in the Sh 6 Billion Telcom shares deal. Through lawyer Danstan Omari, Nyakang’o who was […]
Former Treasury CS Henry Rotich is now a happy man after the court acquitted him and 8 others in the Kimwarer Arror Dams case but blamed the prosecution for bungling the case. Rotich was acquitted alongside former Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA) boss David Kimosop, former Chief Economist Kennedy Nyakundi, Jackson Kinyanjui and Titus Muriithi. […]
500 Njiru residents will also now get their day in court as they have been enjoined in the case where foreigner Bernado Vicezo De Masi has challenged courts decision to issue land to Kirima family.The matter was mentioned today before Justice D Mwangi and the court heard that there was no opposition to them being […]
The high court on Thursday declined to adopt a 37-page DNA consent that has been filed in the late Simeon Nyachae’s Multi-billion estate dispute flagging it off as a delaying tactic. In the case, an American woman Margaret Chweya has laid claim to the estate of the late minister saying she had three kids now […]
A man who was arrested on Jamuhuri day with 25 rolls of bhang has been charged before a Milimani court. Simon Mwangi was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Susan Shitubi and charged with being in possession of Narcotic drugs contrary to section 3 of the Narcotic Drugs Act. It is alleged that he was arrested on […]
A Kisii high court on Monday dismissed an appeal filed by a bodaboda rider who was sentenced to death after he pleaded guilty of robbing his passenger in 2021. Victor Nyariki Nyabaru had appealed his conviction and sentence but the court dismissed his appeal for lack of merit. Justice Kiarie Waweru Kiarie further ruled that […]
Nyakang’o criminal case put off pending determination of case that suspended her prosecution. Embattled controller of budget Margaret Nyakang’o criminal case in Mombasa has been put off pending determination of the case that suspended her prosecution. The case was mentioned today before Chief Magistrate Alex Ithuku for directions and the court was informed of the […]
The Sh 40 million corruption case against Embakasi North MP James Gakuya will resume hearing in March next year. Gakuya and his co-accused appeared in court today for the mention of their case to take new hearing dates. The case was being heard by Magistrate Elizabeth Juma and after her transfer to it was reallocated […]
