Former nominated Senator Joy Gwendo venture into politics has not been as rosy as she has waded through murky waters in her short stint in politics and partly while out of office.
From being a politician under the ruling Jubilee Party to arrests and scandals, Ms Gwendo has been given another chance.
The former Nominated Senator will now have to part with Ksh.660,000 fine or spend a year in jail after the High Court revised her sentence.
Judge John Onyiego, while delivering the ruling on Monday, ruled that the trial court erred in law by sentencing her to jail without the option of a fine; further noting that the money Ms. Gwendo stole had been fully paid.
Ms. Gwendo, in the case, was on December 7, 2018 sentenced to a two-year jail term after she was found guilty of abuse of office and fraud.
In short, she will be out in 2020 1.1m richer. Let’s assume she fixes the money for 1 year. That means itazaana akiwa jela. That 0.6m fine is just PAYS (Pay as You Steal). 🙄🙄— BRAVIN™ (@ItsBravin) March 4, 2019
In the ruling, Magistrate Douglas Ogoti ordered that she be jailed without the option of a fine because of ‘hoodwinking the court.’
“On the 23rd day of October 2016 at Chiga Parish in Kisumu East within Kisumu County used her position as a State officer to confer herself Ksh.2,226,800 the property of Kisumu East Cotton Growers Cooperative Society through Kivali Development Initiative,” read the charge sheet.
The court also found that the accused was dishonest.