Published on September 26, 2024 by Agencies for Kenya Online News
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Safina party leader Jimmy Wanjigi has been stopped from pleading to charges in relation to creating disturbance and felony.
In issuing the order, Justice Bahati Mwamuye said, “Pending hearing inter parties, an order of prohibition is hereby issued against the DPP barring it from instituting any criminal charges or continuing any criminal prosecution against Wanjigi relating to the subject matter of the petition.”
For clarity, the judge said Wanjigi would not take a plea before the magistrate’s court when he appeared in court today, September 26th, 2024.
The judge, at the same time, extended orders stopping his prosecution in a firearms-related case.
Wanjigi was at the magistrate’s court at the time the order from the high court was issued.
He was before Chief Magistrate Susan Shitubi, who had deferred her ruling on whether he would plead to the charges today.
She ended up not reading her ruling after being served with the High Court order.
Wanjigi was last month arrested before being released by a magistrate’s court on a Sh10 million bond after his plea was deferred.
His advocate, Willis Otieno, said when the police raided Wanjigi’s home, the only items discovered and confiscated were iPhones, iPads, and three flags.
He argued that the firearms were planted by the police.
The orders will remain in force until the multiple applications filed before Mwamuye are heard and determined.
