DPP Noordin Haji accuses former DCI boss Kinoti of forcing him to charge Gachagua
DPP Noordin Haji accuses former DCI boss Kinoti of forcing him to charge Gachagua with corruption in the KSh 7.4 billion graft case.
The dismissal of the corruption allegations against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has been attributed to the former Director of Criminal Investigation George Kinoti, according to Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji.
Gachagua, who was the Mathira MP at the time, was advocated for prosecution by Kinoti, according to Haji at Checkpoint KTN News, despite the lack of concrete proof connecting him to the charges.
Noordin Haji on DP Gachagua’s graft case Haji argued that his office has moved to review the KSh 7.4 billion graft case against the deputy president after discovering that the DCI’s affidavits linking Gachagua to the case were forged.
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“On DP Gachagua’s charges, the decision was made on the threshold. We were pushed by DCI himself through the media. We felt there was sufficient evidence to charge, but later we discovered the documents were forged,” Kinoti said on Sunday, October 30.
The DPP accused Kinoti’s reign of being behind the forgery of evidence, especially on matters of corruption, a move Haji said has forced his office to review all corruption files that emanated from the DCI.
“It’s a pattern, it was a pattern that a lot of evidence, especially when I came to corruption cases that came from the DCI, documents were flying from all over. And right now, we can’t depend, and we will review all cases brought from DCI in relation to corruption cases,” he said.
Claims by the DPP come after a DCI officer disowned an affidavit linking Gachagua to corruption in the Sh 7.4 billion graft case.
A senior detective presiding over the probe into the case revealed that Kinoti pushed for the charges against Gachagua Via an affidavit he swore on October 13.
Kuriah Obadiah said the top brass of the investigative body did not allow detectives to do proper investigations to ascertain Rigathi’s role in the case.
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