{"id":15013,"date":"2020-09-26T19:46:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=15013"},"modified":"2020-09-26T19:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:46:56","slug":"waluke-wakhungu-bail-ruling-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/waluke-wakhungu-bail-ruling-postponed","title":{"rendered":"Waluke, Wakhungu bail ruling postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Sirisia MP John Waluke and Grace Wakhungu will know their bail ruling on Monday.<\/p>\n

The hearing was pushed to next week after Justice John Onyiego said a fumigation exercise at the Milimani law courts had to take place.<\/p>\n

This comes as\u00a0Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji has urged the court not to release Waluke and Wakhungu on bail.<\/p>\n

He said the two have not proven they are too ill to be taken care of in prison. Haji, in his reply filed before\u00a0judge Onyiego, argued that there are convicts with more serious illnesses who are treated in prison health facilities and public referral hospitals.<\/p>\n

Correspondences between the DPP and Commissioner General of Prisons Wycliffe Ogallo revealed that Waluke has hypertension, arthritis and diabetes while\u00a0 Wakhungu has arthritis and hypertension.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese conditions are usually managed as outpatient unless any complications arise. However, as it is now, their health condition can adequately be managed in our medical facilities,\u201d Ogallo replied to Haji\u2019s letter dated July 27.<\/p>\n

Waluke had told the court that he risks losing his\u00a0seat\u00a0if he stays in prison but Haji, through senior assistant DPP Alexander Muteti, argued that the MP cannot monopolise the seat.<\/p>\n

He risked\u00a0losing his seat after the\u00a0court found him guilty of fraud involving Sh297 million in shady maize dealings with National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB).<\/p>\n

In the case, the State alleged that as a director of Erad Supplies and General Contractors, Waluke made a false invoice worth Sh114,600,000 as evidence to support a maize storage claim by Chelsea Freights.<\/p>\n

He was also charged with fraudulently acquiring Sh297 million from the public as the cost of storing the maize, which was to be supplied to NCPB.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn or about March 19, 2013, in Nairobi City County, being the director of Erad Supplies and General Contractors, he jointly and fraudulently acquired Sh297,386,505 purporting to be the costs of storage of 40,000 tonnes of white maize, guilty or not guilty?\u201c the charges read.<\/p>\n

Erad had been in a long-running battle with NCPB over a botched maize supply saga.<\/p>\n

In 2003, NCPB floated 180,000 tonnes of\u00a0maize supply tender. Five companies were picked.<\/p>\n

Hala General Trading LLC, Euroworld Commodities Limited, and Erad were contracted to supply 40,000 tonnes each, while Purma Holdings and Freba Investments got 30,000 each.<\/p>\n

After a fallout on the payments, NCPB and Erad opted to arbitrate the issue, which then escalated to the Court of Appeal.\u00a0Arbitrator Evans Thiga\u00a0ruled in favour of the firm and awarded it Sh564 million as compensation for losses and storage fees.<\/p>\n

Aggrieved, the board moved to the High Court and again its case was dismissed by Justice Leonard Njagi. NCPB went to the Court of Appeal but equally lost.<\/p>\n

According to NCPB, the firm which Erad had contracted to supply it with maize, Ropack CC International, did not deal with maize business.<\/p>\n

In the deal, Erad was supposed to supply 40,000 tonnes of maize, but NCPB allegedly failed to issue letters of credit to enable it to import the maize.<\/p>\n

After the ruling, Erad attached NCPB\u2019s account held at\u00a0Kenya Commercial Bank\u00a0and some of its assets worth Sh297 million.<\/p>\n

But Parliament\u2019s Investment Committee declared that Erad should not be paid as the documents it had used were falsified and invalid. The report tabled before Parliament in 2013 read that Erad was not qualified to supply the maize.<\/p>\n

The MP\u2019s fate was sealed\u00a0after High Court judge Mumbi Ngugi dismissed their case challenging prosecution.<\/p>\n

Last month, politicians were on their knees, heads bowed in prayer on a chilly Sunday afternoon at the home of convicted Sirisia MP John Waluke. Their mission was simple; they wanted the heavens to grant them just one miracle. One billion shillings.<\/p>\n

They had arrived in style, riding in luxurious cars, parked strategically at Waluke\u2019s spacious rural home.<\/p>\n

Former Kakamega\u00a0Senator Boni Khalwale\u00a0led the delegation of the self-proclaimed preachers of the gospel of political transformation, mainly Jubilee politicians from the Western region allied to Deputy President William Ruto.<\/p>\n

The leaders sought President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s intervention in Waluke\u2019s predicament to help secure his freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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