The Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), on Thursday, listed another former colleague of lawyer Tom Ojienda as a prosecution witness.
Taking to social media, DPP revealed that Advocate Peter Wanyama was lined to testify against Ojienda in the Mumias Sugar graft case.
DPP explained that it had analysed his statements and determined he would be a State witness especially since he had not been recommended for prosecution by the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
“ODPP wishes to confirm that Peter Wanyama, Advocate, will be prosecution witness after analyzing his statements and will testify in the case against Prof Tom Ojienda,” posted the DPP.
It further clarified that Wanyama had not been arrested alongside Ojienda as earlier reports alluded.
“He was neither arrested alongside Prof Ojienda nor recommended for prosecution by DCI,” stated the DPP.
Wanyama was a former colleague of Ojienda before he resigned from the law firm co-ran by the two alongside Court of Appeal Judge James Otieno Odek in January 2012.
On December 31, 2018, the DPP lined Justice Odek as a witness in the case that has since been shelved till February 2019.
In a statement to newsrooms, the DPP sought to clarify allegations that Justice Odek was under investigations and would be subject to prosecution on the matter.
"Following our analysis of the statement provided by the Judge, we have decided that he shall be a prosecution witness in the case against Prof Ojienda," read the Press statement.
