This archive report was first published on 9 August 2019.
On August 9, 2019, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Noordin Haji, made a significant move in the Kimwarer and Arror dams scandal case by supplying former Finance CS Henry Rotich and 25 others with over half a million pages of evidence.
The evidence, which includes exhibits and documents, is a result of a thorough investigation into the Sh22 billion dams scandal. The accused are facing charges of abuse of office, conspiracy to defraud the government, failing to comply with procurement law, and irregular procurement of insurance policy through single sourcing.
Special Prosecutor Taib Ali Taib stated in court that the accused had been supplied with the evidence in soft copies using DVDs. However, the defence strongly opposed this move, arguing that they cannot go through 500,000-page documents in soft copy and instead should be printed.
Rotich's lawyer, Kioko Kilukumi, told the court that they will not contribute funds towards the retrieving and photocopying of the documents. Kilukumi argued that according to the law, the DPP should furnish them with all the relevant documents at their own cost.
“Your honour, we don’t have money to print out the hard copies that are over half a million pages which will run into millions, let the prosecution give us the hard copies,” Kilukumi said.
