How Unnamed Magistrate Helped Gachagua Escape 50-Year Jail Term
On Monday, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua disclosed that an unidentified magistrate played a crucial role in preventing him from facing a 50-year imprisonment.
Addressing the New Year celebrations at Nyeri Maximum Security Prison, Gachagua mentioned that the past government had devised a malicious scheme to confiscate his Ksh12.4 billion fortune and imprison him.
Specifically, he accused George Kinoti, the former head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), of being involved in the alleged scheme.
“Kinoti was a very notorious man but we have since forgiven him. He trumped up charges against me claiming that my Ksh12.4 billion was from criminal proceedings,” Gachagua narrated to prison inmates.
“They put a gun on the magistrate’s head so that he can jail me for 50 years.”
Upon recognizing that the accusations against the then Mathira Member of Parliament were unfounded, the magistrate opted to defer the case, as per Deputy President Gachagua’s account.
Gachagua asserted that due to the judge’s perception of it being a politically motivated witchhunt, the case was adjourned until after the September 2022 general election.
The Deputy President further claimed that Kinoti failed to provide evidence regarding the alleged misappropriation of the Ksh12.4 billion.
“He said I should be jailed first so that I can appeal afterwards,” the DP stated.
Gachagua stated that the choice to delay the case had the backing of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and DCI investigation officers, who were aware that the charges were baseless.
In November 2023, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua commented that the Ksh12.4 billion case originated from a misinterpretation of his accumulated bank balance by a corporal from the National Police Service.
“I had put some money in a microfinance bank for eight years so I was living on the interest, Ksh1.9 million,” he stated then.
“That movement back and forth, a corporal said I had Ksh800 million every year coming to my account and so they calculated it with 8 years and said I had received Ksh12.4 billion.”
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How Unnamed Magistrate Helped Gachagua Escape 50-Year Jail Term
