Youth Affairs Principal Secretary Lilian Mbogo Omollo has lodged an application at the High Court seeking to halt her prosecution over the loss of Ksh468 million in the National Youth Service.
Through her lawyer Stephen Ligunya, Omolo wants her trial suspended pending the hearing and the determination of the application.
First, the application indicated that DPP Noordin Haji had violated her constitutional rights by failure to adequately inform her about her charges.
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“Under article 50(1)(b) am entitled to be informed about the charges with sufficient details. I believe this had been done until my appearance in court when multiple charges, 30 of them which are a violation of my rights,” she stated.
Ms Omollo also indicated that her initial charges were abuse of office, failure to put in checks and balances and conspiracy to commit economic crime but after her arraignment in court, the charges were split.
She accused the DPP of being malevolent of breaking her three primary charges to 10 different charge sheets with 30 charges against her pertaining to different suppliers.
The charges have been stretched to include fraud, forgery, overseeing illegal procurement, neglect of duties, fraudulent payment of goods and services, stealing oil public funds, forwarding fake Local purchasing Orders (LPOs) for NYS among others.
PS Omollo further alleged that detectives had subjected her and her family to intimidation and public ridicule.
She noted that the DCI boss George Kinoti had dispatched 20 armed officers to her home in an attempt to arrest her on the night of May 27 and despite informing them that she would surrender the following morning, they never left the vicinity of her home till 7:30 am.
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The letter also states the police presented her in court late instead of the scheduled 9 am in a bid to ensure that she would not be processed for bail if the court granted her one.
“The DPP also applied for each file to be treated on its own merits on the issue of bail to ensure that bail was multiple and unattainable,” she asserted.
Ms Omollo, who is currently admitted to Kenyatta National Hospital also requested to be released on the basis that she has not been in good health since the trial started.
The PS was rushed to hospital hours after being remanded in Lang’ata Women’s Prison.
