Former MP of Kasarani Elizabeth Ongoro has been given a week to file her grounds of opposition on the move by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) to drop Kenya’s ambassador to Malaysia from a 48million corruption case.
The order was issued to Elizabeth Ongoro who is the sister to Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo and 16 other people by the court.
This comes after state counsel Steve Githinji informed Milimani Chief magistrate Lawrence Mugambi that the defense lawyers had not filed their opposition papers to his boss Noordin Haji’s decision to drop charges against diplomat Ruth Kanini Kittony in the corruption case.
In March this year, Noordin Haji’s office made an application in court saying they had decided to drop the diplomat as a suspect after evaluating the evidence.
The defense attorneys led by city lawyer Danstan Omari had sought for a week to enable them to file their grounds of opposition.
Elizabeth Ongoro and her husband Ferdinand Masha are among 19 individuals suspected to have shared out Sh49 million meant for a school project.
The Kasarani Girls High School project was conceptualised by the area CDF committee, Sh48,907,826 allocated to it and paid out but today, the school does not exist.
In addition to the alleged embezzlement, the suspects are accused of failing to follow procurement laws.
Ms Ongoro was the patron of the Kasarani National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) committee when she was the MP from 2007 to 2013.
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Others in the graft case are former CDF committee members Silvan Onyango, Pamela Mudha, and Claperton Ouda, and businessmen Maricus Otieno, Peter Aming, Maurice Orongo, William Ogutu Weda, James Juma Ochieng, Peter Ongeyo, Charles Owino, John Obonyo Owinga and James Miruka Dola.
They face nine charges of conspiracy to commit offence of corruption, misappropriation of public funds, abuse of office, engaging in a project without prior planning, unlawful acquisition of public property and wilful failure to comply with the law relating to procurement.
