Former Governor Mike Sonko is now a free man after the Anti-Corruption Court acquitted him from all corruption allegations relating to the loss of funds relating to revenue tender at City Hall over three years ago.
Milimani Anti corruption Court chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti freed Sonko and his co-accused businessman Antony Ombok Jamal for lack of evidence in the Ksh 20 million graft case terming the charges as defective and lack of evidence.
“I find that the prosecution has failed to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt. The entire case against all accused persons collapses under section 210 Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) ; they are now all acquitted,” said Ogoti.
While acqutting them from the charges, the magistrate said that all the 13 graft charges filed by the prosecution against Sonko and Jamal were defective as Office of the Director of Public Prosecution failed to adduce evidence identifying the companies that were said to have been paid monies.
Ogoti further noted that no money was stolen from Nairobi county as no evidence was presented in court in regard to the loss of funds from the county government. The court also threw out claims that the former governor illegally authorized payment for the tender.
In the case sonko was charged alongside ROG Security Limited and Jamal of conspiring to commit an offence of corruption namely abuse of office by extorting Sh 10 million as an inducement to facilitate payments to Web tribe limited by Nairobi county government in January 2019.
The embattled former Nairobi governor was charged with another count of conflict of interest where knowingly acquired an indirect private interest in a contract with a public body to wit a contract for supply, implementation and maintenance of electronic revenue collection and payments issued by Nairobi county to Web Tribe by receiving Ksh 10 million from the firm through ROG Security Limited.
