The Director of Public Prosecutions has been dealt a setback after a Nairobi anti-corruption court denied his request to withdraw another NYS case involving Ksh226.9 million that involves former Youth Affairs PS Lilian Omollo.
In a ruling issued on Friday, August 25, 2023, Milimani Anti-Corruption Court Magistrate Eunice Kagure Nyutu declined to have the graft charges against former PS Omollo withdrawn, stating that the DPP had not provided compelling reasons why the partially heard case should be terminated.
The magistrate, on the other hand, ordered that the corruption case against Omollo and 30 other accused persons be prosecuted to its logical end.
The DPP through state counsel Eva Kanyuira had sought to have the charges against Omollo whose trial is almost at its tail end dropped under section 87 (a) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) saying it is in the interest of justice and that of the public if the matter is stopped at this juncture.
While seeking to withdraw the graft charges against the former PS, the prosecution informed the magistrate that none of the witnesses who have testified in the case so far have implicated her directly or indirectly with the scandal.
Today’s court ruling comes days after two other courts allowed the DPP’s plea to withdraw two other corruption cases against Omollo involving the loss of Ksh60 million and Ksh167 million at NYS.
In 2018 when she was first arraigned, Omollo had been charged with three cases over the loss of Ksh468 million at NYS.
