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Kapseret Mp Oscar Sudi at Nakuru Law Courts on September 23, 2020. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi has lost a bid to stop his prosecution over allegations of forging academic certificates.
Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed his application, noting that it had no powers to order a magistrate s court to stop hearing the criminal case.
According to Court of Appeal judges William Ouko, Wanjiru Karanja and Asike Makhandia, Mr Sudi does not appear to challenge the criminal case but was aggrieved about the constitutionality of the charges.
“The said criminal proceedings are not the subject of the appeal before this court. It is discernible from the notice of appeal dated August 10, 2017, as well as the draft memorandum of appeal annexed to the motion, that the subject of the appeal is the High Court’s judgment dated July 24, 2017, which dismissed the applicant’s constitutional petition. As such, we have no jurisdiction to stay the c
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Ex-ICEA manager out of prison after sentence review
Thursday January 14 2021
By JOSEPH WANGUI
Summary
According to an order issued by Justice Hedwig Ong udi, Lincolin Kivuti Njeru will be on probation for three years, under the supervision of Macharia P. N., a probation officer.
The judge also directed that Mr Njeru, who was jailed in September last year, should be refunded his cashbail of Sh1 million that he had deposited at the lower court during the criminal trial that took more than ten years.
Justice Ong undi made the order while ruling on Mr Njeru s application for review of the sentence.
A former manager of Insurance Company East Africa (ICEA), jailed for three years for stealing more than Sh62.7 million from his employer, has been released from prison and put on probation due to his deteriorating health.