MIKE GIDEON MBUVI SONKO V. GEORGE WAINAINA NJOGU, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS & ETHICS & ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

George Wainaina Njogu “the 1^st respondent ” was charged alongside Roselyne Oluoch in Nairobi Chief Magistrate’s Court Criminal Case No. 1 of 2016; with the offence of corruptly offering a benefit contrary to section 39 (3) as read together with section 48 (1) of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act. The charge contained five counts and more particularly that the 1^st respondent and the co-accused had offered the benefit to the appellant on 5^th and 6^th January, 2016 respectively and an inducement for the appellant to stop pursuing a story on how some senior officials employed by the Nairobi County Government were acquiring and developing property using public funds. The 1^st respondent was the Chief of Staff, Nairobi County Government and had been arraigned in court on 9^th January 2016 alongside co-accused, a secretary in his office on those counts. To stem the prosecution, the complainant in the criminal case was said to be the appellant. The 1^st respondent i…