This archive report was first published on 13 June 2020.
Published on June 13, 2020, a High Court judge has allowed the Director of Public Prosecutions to use bank details of a co-accused in the Sh237 million graft case against former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero.
Justice John Onyiego dismissed the plea by Stephen Osiro, the head of accounting at Nairobi County, to expunge his bank details from the list of exhibits. Osiro had argued that an order obtained by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission in July 2015 to investigate his accounts was illegal since he was not given a chance to explain the source of his funds.
The bank details are crucial to the case as they show how money was moved from City Hall accounts to a private individual's accounts during Kidero's reign as governor.
Osiro and Kidero are charged alongside Lilian Wanjiru, Jimmy Kiambaa, Gregory Mwakanongo, Luke Gatimu, John Njogu, and Grace Githua with conspiracy to defraud the millions from the county.
