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Magistrate adjourns case on Itumbi's 'fake' letter

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ICT CAS Dennis Itumbi during a church service at ACK Faith Church in Kiharu, Muranga. [Courtesy. Itumbi Twitter]

A Nairobi court has granted the prosecution a request to adjourn hearing of a case in which ICT Chief Administrative Secretary Dennis Itumbi has been accused of faking a letter purporting a planned assassination plot against then Deputy President William Ruto.

Dr Ruto was elected president in August last year. Mr Itumbi was accused of producing the fake assassination letter to back his claims that some senior government officials in the former Jubilee administration had meet and plotted to commit crime.

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