Mr Ibrahim Haji Issak leaving the Anti-Corruption Court in Nairobi on
May 28, 2015. He and four others are accused of conspiracy to defraud
their employer, the Kenya Meat Commission, of Sh11.5 million. PHOTO |
PAUL WAWERU | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Kenya Meat Commission Managing Commissioner Ibrahim Haji Issak
and five other employees on Thursday appeared in court to face Sh11.5
million corruption charges.
The case is the first of
the 25 files, forwarded to the Director of Prosecution (DPP) by the
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, to be taken to court.
Mr Issak and five other senior KMC employees, however, did not take plea after the court deferred the case.
The
plea was deferred after the suspects’ lawyers said they needed more
time to study the nature of the charges, get instructions and advise
their clients accordingly.
The DPP opposed the deferral
of the plea, but the magistrate overruled the objection, saying “no
prejudice will be suffered by the State to allow lawyers time to study
the charges and advise the clients accordingly”.
Issak
was in court alongside Patrick Sau, Esther Njeri, Francis Musau and Ruth
Muthoni. The sixth suspect, Evans Nyaio, was not in court and a summons
was issued against him to attend court on June 9 to answer the charges.
The
suspects are accused of conspiring to commit an economic crime by
withdrawing Sh11.5 million from a KMC account at First Community Bank.
The
prosecution alleged that the money was withdrawn without official
authorisation and that the officials failed to account for it.
The offence is alleged to have been committed between April 27, 2012 and May 10, 2012.
The
court released the suspects on a Sh100,000 cash bail each with an
alternative of a bond of Sh500,000 and a surety of a similar amount.
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