A businessman facing money laundering charges in Mombasa claims Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji threatened him with a gun and stole 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.
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.
He avers that the DPP cannot, independently, prosecute a matter he was, involved in before getting his current post.