• Ojaamong is separately charged with engaging in a project without prior planning and abuse of office.
• Others are accused of wilfully failing to comply with the law relating to the management of funds.
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The graft case of Sh8 million facing former Busia Governor Sospeter Ojamong proceeds today at the Milimani Law Courts.
Ojaamong his co-accused persons Bernard Aite, Leonard Wanda, Allan Omachari, Samwel Oseko, Edan Odoo, Renish Omullo, Sebastian Hallensben and Madam R Enterprises (MRE) were 2018 charged with conspiracy to commit an economic crime.
Ojaamong is separately charged with engaging in a project without prior planning and abuse of office.
Others are accused of wilfully failing to comply with the law relating to the management of funds.
They are accused of knowingly approving payments amounting to Sh8,000,000 to Madam R Enterprises Ltd for a feasibility study on solid waste management, a project for which funding had not been appropriated
They were placed on their defense after the prosecution called twenty witnesses.
The court heard that MRE was registered in Kenya on April 18. It emerged the county paid Sh8 million to a company whose registration indicated its business was to buy shoes and operate hardware.
In his defense, Ojamong gave an unsworn statement in June 2021 and defended the Sh8 million spent on the study by Madam R Enterprises.
Meanwhile, a woman is to be arraigned at the Kibera Court for failing to pay for drinks and food at a city restaurant.
The woman allegedly accumulated a bill of Sh8000 at a restaurant in Langata within Nairobi County. She is said to have committed the offence on October 16 this year.
In another case, a businessman who is suspected to have swindled the government Sh120 million through tax evasion will be detained until Thursday.
The man was arrested on October 19 at his hideout after switching off his phones when he learned he was being sort by police.