Kenyan High Court made a landmark ruling by sentencing Former Kiambu County Governor Ferdinand Waititu a 12 years in prison or pay Ksh. 52.5 million.
The ex-governor was found guilty of conflict of interest in a Ksh.588 million graft case that has taken him to spend the rest of 12 years at Industrial GK Prisons which was established during colonial government.
In the sentencing at Milimani Law Courts on Thursday by Justice Nzioka, Waititu was similarly barred from vying for any political seat for a period of 7 years.
Waititu was charged along with his wife, Susan Ndung’u, who was slapped with a one-year imprisonment or pay a fine of Ksh.500,000 shillings. The court convicted them on graft-related charges but acquitted them on three counts of money laundering.
Their co-accused, Testimony Enterprises Limited director Charles Chege, has also been slapped with a Ksh.295 million fine or serve a 9-year jail sentence.
Beth Wangeci, the second director at Testimony Enterprises Limited has also been fined Ksh.1 million or serve one year behind bars.