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No relief for Waititu as court upholds Sh53.5m bail demand

Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu at a Milimani court on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu will continue serving his 12-year jail term at Kamiti Maximum Prison after the Anti-Corruption High Court on Wednesday rejected his plea to reduce his Sh53.5 million bail terms pending the hearing of his conviction appeal in a Sh588 million corruption case.

In her ruling, Justice Lucy Njuguna declined to lower the bail terms, noting that Waititu had failed to provide sufficient justification for altering the court’s earlier conditions, which required a full bank guarantee, terms he had initially proposed himself.

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