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DPP loses move to extradite Okemo to UK
Thursday December 01 2022
Former power and finance cupboard minister Chris Okemo. PHOTO | POOL
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has misplaced a bid to extradite former Finance and Energy Cabinet Minister Chris Okemo to the United Kingdom for trial over alleged corruption and theft of Sh1.5 billion 23 years in the past.
City court docket Chief Magistrate Roseline Oganyo yesterday discharged Mr Okemo from the extradition course of after the DPP failed to adduce both oral or documentary proof to show why the previous minister needs to be taken to Britain to face felony fees within the Island of Jersey.
The Justice of the Peace’s ruling was triggered by the DPP’s determination dated September 20, 2022, to shut the case with out calling witnesses.
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At the time of closing the case, the Justice of the Peace said, Prosecutor Alexander Muteti (senior assistant DPP) stated the DPP had determined not to name 5 witnesses that he had deliberate to invite to testify towards Mr Okemo, who was wished in Jersey alongside former managing director of Kenya Power & Lighting Company (KPLC) Samuel Gichuru.
The latter’s extradition case was suspended due as a result of he’s ailing.
They have been accused of accepting bribes from overseas corporations that have been doing enterprise with Kenya Power & Lighting Company (KPLC) between the years 1999 and 2001.
The supposed witnesses have been from the Island of Jersey. They have been to give their testimonies just about through video hyperlink from September 20 to 22, 2022 and have been additionally to depend on documentary proof.
“(But) when the case was called for hearing on September 20, the prosecutor said he won’t call the five witnesses and will rely on the documentary evidence,” stated Justice of the Peace Oganyo.
“He submitted 14 bundles of documents in court as evidence. He would have called the witnesses to produce the documents. So no documentary evidence has been tendered in accordance with the evidential rules. The move by Mr Muteti caught the court and counsels by surprise,” she added.
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In her ruling, she additionally blocked the prosecutor from reopening the case and calling the 5 witnesses to testify orally.
“To accede to the DPP’s request will be unfair to Mr Okemo in view of the age of the matter. The DPP must be held to his decision as he did on September 20 to close the case without evidence or witnesses. So no evidence has been adduced to warrant the court to allow the extradition,” stated the Justice of the Peace.
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DPP loses move to extradite Okemo to UK
DPP loses move to extradite Okemo to UK
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DPP loses move to extradite Okemo to UK