Ferdinand Waititu Pleads his Innocence in Kes.588 million Graft Case

Broken-down Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu appealed to an anticorruption court docket to exonerate him from all charges within the Kes.588 million graft case.

Waititu testified sooner than trial Justice of the Peace Thomas Nzyuki, alleging that the corruption charges were fabricated attributable to his mighty reinforce for President William Ruto throughout the 2022 succession politics.

Baba Yao urged the court docket that he was a prominent suggest for the TangaTanga movement in Kiambu. He claimed that his reinforce for Ruto resulted in his arrest and subsequent prosecution by the then-ruling class.

“I supported the President so worthy. On the time he was the deputy president. I used to be sacrificed in a worthy broader political war linked to the 2022 succession politics,” he talked about.

Waititu claimed that the corruption case in opposition to him was orchestrated to drive him out of location of industrial.

“It was a diagram. This was a political witchhunt. The case was started to hound me out of location of industrial. They succeeded because once I used to be charged, one in all the prerequisites when bail terms were situation was that I have to peaceable now not tear serve to the location of industrial,” Waititu talked about

He recounted how his impeachment adopted his indictment, allegedly below the direction of the worn authorities. He alleged that bribery influenced the Senate’s decision throughout his impeachment complaints.

“Senators were bribed to uphold my impeachment,” he claimed.

In his plea for acquittal, Waititu urged magistrate Nzyuki to put in suggestions the an infinite sequence of instances that worn Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji withdrew attributable to alleged deceptive recordsdata from then Director of Prison Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti.

He highlighted that the worn DPP had publicly admitted that many corruption instances throughout the worn regime were influenced by political pressures.

“It is equally most significant to specialise in that the worn DPP has long gone on are living and on the myth to admit that nearly all if now not all corruption instances instituted throughout the worn regime were in actual fact urged by the prevailing political forces,” Waititu talked about.

He also argued that it wasn’t uncommon for his fable to get hang of Kes. 600,000, citing his wife’s involvement in selling gas merchandise and imports.

“Even this day my wife sells gas merchandise and imports…it’s now not outlandish for Chege to pay the Ksh.600,000 to the fable,” the flesh presser outlined.

In 2019, Waititu, his wife Susan Wangari, Testimony Enterprises, its directors, and others were charged with irregularly awarding a Kes.588,198,328.20 toll road at ease in Kiambu County.

The prosecution concluded its case final year after presenting 32 witnesses and an infinite sequence of documentary pieces of proof.

The complaints will resume this day for further listening to.