Court staff grilled over Sonko papers
Makadara MP Gidion Mbuvi (centre) at the Kibera Law Courts where he was denied bail and remanded in custody until Friday when he is expected to answer fraud charges November 23, 2010. Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE
Detectives have questioned two senior Kibera court officials over the disappearance of court files involving arrested Makadara legislator Gidion Kioko Mbuvi alias Sonko.
“We hope to trace the missing files before Friday,” a CID officer told journalists.
The CID officers interrogated the two administrative officials after it emerged that the files on fraud cases and warrants of arrests that should have been archived were missing.
Only two files have been found in the archives. The MP is scheduled to appear before Kibera chief magistrate Cecilia Githua on Friday to face more charges.
Detectives have since Monday been consolidating all cases involving the legislator and the pending warrants of arrest, which they want to use to argue their case on Friday.
The MP is held at the Kileleshwa Police Station. The prosecutor told the court on Monday that the Makadara MP had a history of jumping bail and opposed a bail plea by the legislator’s three lawyers led by Cecil Miller and Paul Muite.
Meanwhile, Patience Chepchumba Kogo, the woman who accused the legislator of obtaining Sh500,000 pretending he would sell her a car, on Wednesday reported to the CID that she had received several death threats.
She handed over the evidence to detectives at the Investigations Bureau and spent more than two hours there after which she was escorted to an undisclosed location by the police.
The woman told the police she was receiving numerous threatening messages and expressed fear for her life.
