Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has been let off the hook by the Anti-Corruption Court. In a ruling delivered by Senior Principal Magistrate  Victor Wakumile, Gachagua’s 7.2 Billion case has been dropped. This is after the Director of Public Prosecutions Yusuf Hajji applied for the charges to be dropped citing lack of evidence.

“There being no objection to the substantive application by the prosecution to have the matter withdrawn under section 87A of the Criminal Procedure Code, the application is hereby granted. The accused persons are hereby warned and informed that they may be re-arrested in the future and on the same or similar charges,” he ruled.

The Office of Directorate of Public Prosecution (ODPP) fingered the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for failing to provide sufficient evidence to prosecute the case.

According to the lead prosecutor Kuria Obadiah, the DCI team failed to avail the original files and exhibits used to arrest and charge Gachagua.

“In light of the request to review, the prosecution team sat and reviewed the evidence and realized that we were not able to respond to the letters without the evidence we had requested from the DCI at the time we were charging. DCI did not respond to our request, nor did they avail the original files and the exhibits required to enable us to study the file again,” the ODPP stated

The Deputy President through his lawyer Kioko Kilukumi welcomed the move as a win for justice because his client (the DP) was being politically targeted with what he termed to be trumped up charges