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Lawyer denies setting up Kemsa official over Sh1 million bribe claim

Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA), Industrial Area, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

A lawyer has denied setting up a legal officer at the Kenya Medical Suppliers Authority (Kemsa) by secretly recording him while soliciting Sh1 million bribe.

Titus Barasa Makhanu instead accused the Kemsa official Evans Cheruiyot of being a captive of his own mistakes which led to the secret recording when he was demanding for a bribe to approve payments for legal services offered to the state agency.

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