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Shoddy police investigations cost Kenyans Sh 7.4 million

A manager who was acquitted in a cocaine trafficking case has been awarded Sh7.4 million.

The High Court ordered the Government to pay Bobby Macharia, general manager of Pepe Ltd based at Athi River, as compensation for humiliation and wrongful detention in the 2005 Sh1.65 billion cocaine trafficking case.

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