The public prosecution team handling the case in Busia Governor Sospeter Ojaamong's alleged involvement in graft has been dealt a blow.
This is is after a key witness in the corruption case against the governor change of tune on Thursday, throwing the discourse of the matter into a limbo.
Busia County Secretary, Nicodemus Mulako, told the court that he did not record the statement that the prosecution had presented in the case. Mulako also denied having recorded a statement angled against the governor.
The governor is facing seven counts of corruption-related charges in the case approved by DPP Noordin Haji.
He is accused of abuse of office, engaging in a project without proper planning and approving payments whereas he did not have the authority and willful failure to comply with the law relating to the management of funds.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) sleuths arrested and arraigned Ojaamong in court on July 4, 2018.
The county boss was charged at the Milimani Anti-Corruption Law Courts together with his co-accused; County Executive Officers (CECs) Bernard Yaite, Finance chief officer, Allan Ekweny and Treasury head Samuel Ombui.
His arrest put him on the spot as the first county boss to be nabbed over graft allegations an action that attracted criticism from the council of governors.
The governor linked his arrest and intended prosecution to political witch-hunt, insisting that he would not be shaken by "distractors."
He held that there was no money lost in his administration, pledging to prove the prosecution wrong as he had evidence that the county earned value for the money used in the controversial waste management deal.
"No money was lost. All this is about politics. I am going to face the President and tell him if they go this way they will lose the fight on graft," Ojaamong reacted to the DPP's orders that approved his arrest early in July.
