Mandago released over Finland scholarship case
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Uasin Gishu Senator Jackson Mandago released with his co-accused on a KSh2 million bond over the Finland scholarship case
Uasin Gishu Senator Jackson Mandago released with his co-accused on a KSh2 million bond over the Finland scholarship case.
Jackson Mandago and two other suspects in the Finland and Canada Scholarship scandals have been released on bail by a Nakuru Law court.
Following allegations that a fourth suspect had left the country, the Nakuru court postponed the taking of the suspects’ pleas.
The trio were freed on a Ksh2 million bond or a Ksh500,000 cash bail alternative.
In addition to ordering the prosecution to split the case so that the first accused who is still at large be charged separately, the judge also ordered that the date for entering a plea be determined in 2 hours.
“The fact that the ruling is yet to be taken should not be a bar to bail,” Senior Principal Magistrate Alloys Ndege asserted.
The lawyer of the first accused told the court that his client had not been summoned by the Director of Criminal Investigations but only learned about the arrests on social media.
The three are accused of conspiring to steal Sh1.1 billion from a Kenya Commercial Bank account in Eldoret registered under the Uasin Gishu Education Trust Fund.
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The Fund was intended for overseas university fees for scholarship students to study in Finland and Canada.
DCI on Wednesday alleged that the suspect fled the country following the investigations, claims the lawyer refuted in court.
“Your Honour as an officer of this court, I have advised my client who is in Canada to come back to Kenya and face his accusers and to answer to the charges leveled against him,” the lawyer told the court.
He requested the court to defer the case of the first accused but proceed with the hearing of the other respondents until his client can come back to the country.
Senior Principal Magistrate Alloys Ndege requested any aggrieved party to make an appeal on the ruling instead of getting into a battle of words in court.
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