Nairobi — The Excessive Court docket is made up our minds to rule on a up to date application for bond sought by used Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu.
Waititu, who has been in prison since February following his conviction in a corruption case, is searching for to be launched on bond pending the listening to and determination of his enchantment.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) objected to his contemporary application, arguing that the topic had already been made up our minds by the connected court docket, making the renewed ask inadmissible.
The used governor used to be sentenced to 12 years in prison or a shapely of Fifty three Million Shillings after the Justice of the Peace’s court docket chanced on him responsible of corruption-connected funds.
Justice Lucy Njuguna had rejected his first repeat for bond on March 3, 2025.
Waititu’s earlier application citing scientific grounds used to be pushed aside because it didn’t meet the moral threshold for begin on bail pending enchantment.
The ex-Governor used to be equally barred from vying for any political seat for a length of seven years.
Waititu used to be charged together together with his necessary other, Susan Ndung’u, who used to be slapped with a one-one year imprisonment or pay a shapely of 500,000 Shillings
