Former Nominated Senator Joy Gwendo made a deal with the Director of Public Prosecutions after pleading guilty to three counts.
Gwendo had been accused of issuing bad cheques to Kisumu East Cotton Growers Cooperative Society before entering into a plea bargain with DPP Noordin Haji.
The total amount for the three counts was reported to be over Ksh3 million.
The former Nominated Senator agreed to settle the matter out court affirming she will pay back the money in four installments, however, Gwendo was slated for sentencing for December 7, 2018.
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In January 2018, Gwendo was arrested by officers from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) after the DPP gave consent to a charge of stealing, issuing a bad cheque and abuse of office.
Gwendo, who was also facing four other charges among them abuse of office, is accused that on October 23, 2016, at Chiga Parish in Kisumu East, she used her position as a state officer to award herself property worth Ksh2.2million of the cooperative society through Kivuli Development Initiatives account.
She was also facing two other counts of issuing bad cheques to Kisumu East Cotton Growers Cooperative Society.
Gwendo was alleged to have issued two cheques amounting to Ksh1.2 million to the society on December 5, 2016, knowing that her account had insufficient funds.
She was further accused of forging a cheque of Ksh200,000.
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It was alleged that on October 23, 2016, at the parish, with intent to defraud the cooperative society, she forged the cheque purporting to have been drawn in favour of Kivuli Development Initiative by one Willy Kipkorir Bett.
