Plot twist! Joy Gwendo released on bail

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Exactly a week after former nominated Senator Joy Gwendo was sentenced to two years in prison without an option for fine after failing to honour a plea bargain she entered with the state to pay a Kisumu SACCO Ksh. 1.7 million, the court seems to have now changed its mind.

The former Senator will now taste freedom after the High Court today released her on a Ksh. 400,000 cash bail.

It apparently takes a judicial review for the ruling of the magistrates’ court to be overturned.

Do you think this has anything to do with power and status?

 

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Lady Justice Grace Ngenye granted Gwendo bail after she sought a revision of her sentence. The ex-senator was sentenced to two years in jail by Anti-corruption court Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti last week on Friday.

 

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She was neither given an option of a fine nor the right to appeal for failing to pay Ksh. 2.2 million belonging to a SACCO. The judge made the ruling after Gwendo failed to honour a plea bargain pact she entered with the State to pay the money to the complainant.

Gwendo admitted that on October 23, 2016, at Chiga parish in Kisumu, she used her position as a State officer to confer herself Ksh. 2,226,880, money which belonged to the SACCO. The ex-senator had pleaded guilty to charges of forgery, issuing a bad cheque and abuse of office and agreed to repay during the pre-plea pact that helped her evade being charged.

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