How DCI Kinoti & DPP Haji’s sloppiness have made Wanjigi a free man after 11 charges

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Justice Pauline Nyamweya on Tuesday ruled that the Inspector General of Police and the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) acted in abuse of the court process and in bad faith before she quashed charges pressed at the Nyeri Law court against businessman Jimi Wanjigi.

Nyamweya noted that the reasons given by the Prosecution that Nyeri is Wanjigi’s rural home is not supported by law on the territorial jurisdiction of magistrate’s court in criminal cases not the constitutional imperatives of an expeditious trial.

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“The DPP had argued that the applicant has the option of seeking a transfer of the place of trial. In my view this approach is not only abetting an illegality, but would also be prejudicial and unfair to Wanjigi as it entail additional expenses and inconvenience arising from an act which is not of the applicants making,” the judge said.

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The judge added that they were motivated by extraneous factors in the decisions made to charge and summon Wanjigi.

“The applicant is entitled to the order sought of certiorari to quash the impugned summons and charges,” the court ruled.

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The judge further quashed the summons requiring Wanjigi to appear before the chief magistrate court at Nyeri on March 1, 2018 to take plea in criminal case and the charge sheet registered against him before the said court.

Similarly the court ruled that the DPP action to charge him in Nyeri Law Court led to the inescapable conclusion that the said action was intended to prejudice the Wanjigi.

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Wanjigi through lawyer his lawyers moved to the high court to challenge the process in which the case in Nyeri was filed, and argued that his constitutional rights had been violated.

According to the charge sheet in the Nyeri Law court, the prosecution pressed 11 charges against the businessman among them being possession of illegal firearms.

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