Is this the genesis of big fish jailing?
Former Jubilee Senator Joy Gwendo was on Friday 7th December morning sentenced to two years in jail for fraud by anti-Corruption Court chief magistrate Douglas Ogoti .
Gwendo was accused of failing to honour a plea bargain she entered with the state to pay a Kisumu Sacco Sh1.7 million after she had pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud following the plea bargain deal with the DPP.
Ex-nominated Senator Joy Gwendo jailed for two and a half years for graft pic.twitter.com/ouMva79Mmz
— Robin Njogu (@robinnjogu) December 7, 2018
The former legislator had in the deal agreed to pay the sacco the said cash that was the man point of contention and the start of the case with the politician pleading guilty to a count of abuse of office and two others for issuing bad cheques.
Gwendo had issued a bad cheque amounting to Kshs 300,000 in favour of Kisumu East Cotton Growers Cooperative Society through CFC Stanbic Kivuli’s development initiative’s account yet she knew there were insufficient funds. She also admitted issuing another cheque on the same day worth Sh950,000. She also faced a third count of abuse of office.
The former senator also admitted that on October 23, 2016, at Chiga parish in Kisumu, she used her position as a state officer to confer herself Sh2,226,880, money which belonged to the sacco, an accusation that led to the abuse of office allegation and finally charge.
She had been earlier released on Sh300,000 cash bail.