“DPP pointed a gun at my head,” Business man tells Court

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With the DPP being on the spot this past few days, it comes to a shock that their own Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji has been accussed by a businessman facing money laundering charges in Mombasa of threatening him with a gun and stealing Sh2 million from him during a raid at Reef Hotel two years ago.

Stephen Vicker Mangira testified in a Mombasa court that Haji who was then an intelligence officer with the National Intelligence Service and several policemen raided the hotel on claims they were searching for drugs.

In an explosive affidavit filed at the High Court in Mombasa Stephen Vicker Mangira claims Haji exercised illegal powers as an intelligence officer by purporting to arrest and search him without just cause months before becoming DPP last year by.The businessman told the court Haji threatened him with a gun at Reef Hotel on February 11 2017 when he accompanied police officers on a raid on his car.

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Mangira’s lawyer Kinyua Kamunde told the court that Haji, not only broke the law but was also guilty of gross professional misconduct and should not prosecute his client’s case due to conflict of interest.

“I accuse Mr Noordin Haji and Hamisi Salim Masha of jointly stealing Sh2,100,000,” testified Mangira who also added that the future DPP “pointed a gun at my head and conducted a search on my person.”

Mangira has sued the DPP and other state officers including the head of the anti-narcotics unit Dr Hamisi Salim Massa for malicious prosecution and wants Haji blocked from prosecuting him over conflict of interest.

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He avers that the DPP cannot, independently, prosecute a matter he was, involved in before getting his current post. But the Attorney General through state counsel Wachira Guyo opposed the application on the grounds that the DPP and Masa cannot be sued in their personal capacities for acts they performed as a state officers acting in good faith.

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