Former Finance Minister Chris Obure acquitted in Ksh.928M Anglo Leasing case
Former
Finance Minister Christopher Obure, former Transport Permanent Secretary Sammy
Kyungu and ex-Finance Secretary Samuel Bundotich have been acquitted of charges
in the Anglo Leasing graft case.
A
Nairobi court on Friday ruled that the three never benefited from the Ksh.928 million project, for which they were charged 7 years ago.
According
to the trial magistrate Ann Mwangi, the prosecution failed to prove its case
against the three.
The
court noted that all the three investigators in the case could not tell who initiated
the project.
Obure,
addressing the media outside the court after the ruling, said: “All this has
now come to an end and the truth has finally come out. What the magistrate said
is that we did not derive any benefits out of any decisions we took and the
contract we executed during that period.”
The
court in September last year ruled that the three had a case to answer in the
Anglo leasing scandal over the procurement of
VSAT satellite for the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK).
They
faced various counts for offences committed between March and July 2002 among
them abuse of office and breach of trust against the public.
The scandal involved 18 State security
contracts which are alleged to have been awarded without diligence tests on the
suppliers.
According to
the prosecution, the agreements were bloated and contracts not executed leading
the country into losing billions of shillings.
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