Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji has appealed against the acquittal of alcohol tycoon Humphrey Kariuki and five others in a case over possession of uncustomed ethanol worth Sh7.4 million.
The DPP has termed last week’s decision by Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot unfair and without any factual or legal basis.
Mr Haji wants the High Court to quash or set aside the ruling which cleared Mr Kariuki and his co-accused Peter Njenga, Robert Thinji, Eric Mulwa, Kepha Gakure, African Spirits Limited and Wow Beverages Limited. We [want] the order of acquittal quashed and/or set aside and [for the court] to declare the prosecution before the magistrate as amounting to a mistrial, Mr Haji says in his petition.
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