DPP Keriako Tobiko's bid to terminate kidnapping case of Embu speaker Kariuki Mate flops

Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko

NAIROBI, KENYA: A bid by Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko to terminate case against a CID officer accused of kidnapping Embu County speaker Kariuki Mate has hit a snag after a Nairobi court directed the case to proceed to full trial.

Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Ellena Nderitu ruled that the application by the DPP to withdraw the case against Nicholas Muriuki  Kangangi of CID Starehe under section 87(a) of the Criminal Procedure Code was an abuse of the prosecutorial powers bestowed upon the DPP's office saying such an attempt was out of malice and bad faith.