A Labour court has granted a former Forensics investigator at the anti-graft agency accused of leaking confidential information Sh1.2 million as compensation for unfair termination.
Weldon Kiptoo Rotich was fired in July 2015 by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission on suspicion of divulging investigative information to third parties.
But Employment and Labour Relations Judge James Rika termed his termination as unfair.
He said the procedure leading to his termination was flawed. The court directed EACC to pay him Sh174,673 being his 23 days of annual leave.
At the same time, Rika granted him compensation for unfair termination of the equivalent of his 6 months' salary at Sh1.2 million.
"Termination was based on valid reasons, but flawed in the manner of its execution," the judge said.
The court in compensating him took into consideration his good track record.
He was employed on September 14, 2009, and dismissed in July 2015.
The Judge said there is no evidence that his employment record was blemished.
At the time Weldon was dismissed from work, a criminal case was lodged at the Milimani Chief Magistrate’s court still on the same issue.
He was ultimately acquitted on grounds that he was charged with a non-existent law.
At the time he was indicted, EACC was probing Anglo leasing and chicken gate scandals.
The commission said there was information leakage which would find its way to media houses.
EACC in the case before the Labour court accused Weldon of having unauthorized access to a computer that belonged to his colleague, John Kiilu.
Kiilu was investigating the Anglo leasing scandal but employees were not prohibited from sharing computers.
Each employee according to the court records had login credentials but the employee could not log in using another's details.
The court heard that when Weldon was on the machine, he was reading high-profile cases Kiilu was handling.
But Weldon in his testimony said he was entrusted with an induction course for new employees by the commission.
He said he needed the course material which was saved on his colleague - Kiilu's computer.
He was absent when Weldon was found at his computer.
Weldon explanation that he was at his colleague's computer downloading induction course material for new employees did not sit well with EACC.
When he was dismissed, there was no letter to show cause, there was no notice.
The court has affirmed that the procedure leading to his termination was flawed.
