Godhana cleared of Tana violence charges
Galole MP Dhadho Godhana who has been dismissed in connection to the Tana River clashes September 12, 2012.
A court has exonerated former Galole MP Dhadho Godhana from the blood letting in Tana River County.
Mr Godhana was on Wednesday discharged of the incitement charges the State levelled against him following a round of violence in the region that left more than 30 people dead in August 2012 and labelled him a “scapegoat” made to bear the brunt of a failing security system.
The suspended Livestock assistant minister equally challenged the government to come clean over the killings that have characterised the region.
“It has been established that I was just being used as a cover... the government was shifting blame to me, now that I’m free, so many questions beg answers, if it was not Godhana, then who is it?” he posed outside the Milimani court precincts.
Mr Godhana was on trial for allegedly uttering words during a local TV talk show, which the prosecution deemed to be incitement and an endangering of lives. He was accused of calling for the sacking of the Internal Security Minister, and accusing him of “expansionist ideologies.”
Had his case been proved, he would have been jailed for five years.
On Wednesday, Nairobi chief magistrate Kiarie Waweru said the words pre-supposedly uttered during the talk show did not carry the ingredients for sustaining a charge of incitement against the former MP.
Chief inspector Onesmus Towett said he would contest the ruling in an appeal.
