Kahawa Law Courts has allowed and application by the Office of the Directorate of Public prosecutions to withdraw terrorism case against former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko.
Today Kahawa Law Courts principal magistrate Daniel Kiage allowed the ODPP’s request and marked the case as withdrawn.
“I have considered the application by the prosecution and I hereby mark the matter as withdrawn under section 87A of the CPC,” the magistrate ruled.
In the case, Sonko was in 2021 charged alongside two others, namely Clifford Ochieng Ouko and Benjamin Onyango Odhiambo over the offence of terrorism.
According to the charge sheet, Sonko together with his alleged accomplices, allegedly knowingly recruited unknown persons to commit or participate in the commission of a terrorist act in contravention of Prevention of Terrorism Act.
He was accused of allegedly committing the offence on or before January 1, 2021, at an unknown place within the country.
The other charge against Sonko stated that he was found in possession of property for the commission of a terrorist act, contrary to Section 6 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2012.
The charge sheet said that on January 31, 2021, in Athi River, within Machakos County, he had in his possession military attire for the commission or facilitation of a terrorist act.
