Kidero acquittal: How DPP failed to prove Sh213 million graft charges

Former Governor of Nairobi Evans Kidero lauds President William Ruto and former late Prime Minister Raila Odinga for putting aside their political differences in the interest of national unity.[FILE]

For nearly eight years, the corruption case against former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero and nine others dragged through the corridors of justice, hailed at the beginning as one of the country’s most high-profile anti-graft prosecutions.

But on Thursday, it joined the long list of collapsed corruption cases that have exposed the persistent weaknesses of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Renson Ingonga and his team in securing convictions against powerful individuals.