Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa was arrested on Tuesday morning (August 4) and arraigned for selling a motor vehicle that he had acquired through asset finance arrangement without informing the bank that had loaned him the funds. The lawmaker was yet to clear his loan balance when he allegedly sold the car.
The legislator appeared before the Kajiado Law Courts.
He has since been freed on Sh100,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty to fraudulently selling a car worth Sh450,000 to a Kitengela-based businessman in 2017.
The MP on his defence, through veteran lawyer John Khaminwa, argued that he sold the vehicle to the businessman through an intermediary but the latter breached the sale agreement. He told the court that the sale was on willing buyer willing seller basis.“Irungu, being in breach of the agreement, has chosen to make unwarranted allegations against the MP, seeking to extort from him a colossal sum of money under the guise of compensation for a nonexistent breach of the sale agreement to purchase the vehicle is alleged that on March 10, 2017, the MP sold a vehicle he had acquired through a loan facility from Uwezo Microfinance Bank in 2016.
Despite selling the vehicle at Ksh450, 000, Barasa is said to have remained with the logbook of the car, a Toyota Hiace of registration plate KBX 734E.
Later on March 10, 2017, the lawmaker is said to have attempted to use the logbook to get another loan facility from a different bank, a move that Uwezo Microfinance Bank got to know of and intercepted.
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Uwezo, thereafter, reported the fraudulent deal to the DCI officers in Kitengela, who arrested the legislator.
And this is not the first time the vocal Tanga Tanga MP is being accused of fraud. We all recall after KIbera by elections, when MP Fatuma Gedi told him off saying that he was a conman who once attempted to con unsuspecting public using the name of Pevans East Africa LTD, the company the ran the Sportpesa brand.
Our sources also intimate that Barza was involved with fraud while serving in the army and as well as his days in Mombasa.
Am use to fake stories it will not change anything conman @DidmusWaBarasa https://t.co/reXPSDiry9 pic.twitter.com/MsKcBiO6qp
— Hon Fatuma Gedi, CBS (@Hon_FatumaGedi) November 15, 2019
