Suspended CS Kamau must plead to charge, court rules

Kamau had moved to the High Court on Tuesday under a certificate of urgency challenging the summons, on the grounds that his prosecution was unlawful

The High Court on Wednesday directed suspended Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary Engineer Michael Kamau to honour summons issued by the anti-corruption court for Thursday. Justice Mumbi Ngugi directed Kamau to plead to abuse of office charges as summoned and to make an application for release on bond if he did not want to be detained by the police.


Kamau had moved to the High Court on Tuesday under a certificate of urgency challenging the summons, on the grounds that his prosecution was unlawful.
Kamau argued that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) which recommended his prosecution to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), was not legally constituted at the time and therefore any recommendations it made were null and void.
“The Constitution stipulates very clearly that the commission should be comprised of a chairman and two other commissioners of which there were none when the EACC forwarded my client’s file to the DPP,” lawyer Paul Njuguna argued on behalf of Kamau before Justice Ngugi on Wednesday.

source: Capital FM Kenya