Former Nairobi County governor Evans Kidero is at it again. Kidero is asking for the court to drop charges asking him to refund Sh.14 million.
He is accused of having been paid the money by the council of Nairobi when he was at the helm of Kenya’s capital city.
Through his lawyer senior counsel Tom Ojienda, Dr. Kidero asked the court to strike out those charges asking the recovery of the said cash – as being baseless – and that they have nothing that links them to him. He further said that attempts to recover money (that does not even exist) by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) were an abuse of the court process.
“The alleged recovery is intended to defeat the ongoing trial before a magistrate. No criminal determination or culpability has been made by the trial court, ascribing any form of liability against Dr. Kidero,” argued Prof Ojienda, when making the application before High Court Judge Esther Maina.
Dr. Kidero is not new to the corridors of justice. During his tenure as Nairobi county boss, Kidero was accused several times of financial fraud and mismanagement of public money. At one point, a serious case involved the governor and former Supreme Court justice, judge Tunoi, when it was alleged that the governor had paid the judge an astronomical amount of money in the tune of Sh. 200 million in hard currency.
People even objected that that would not happen since carrying such an amount of money would only mean that it was in a big container – something that would not have happened because the money was considered to be a bribe and therefore was to be passed to the other party in secrecy.
The former governor has been in a political cold for five years and has since expressed interest to vie for the Homa Bay governor’s seat in the upcoming election of 2022. Homa Bay is Kidero’s home county.
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