Nandi Governor charged in Kisumu Court with Malicious damage to property.

                         

Nandi Governor Stephen Sang{L} and and Kapseret MP Osca Sudi address the press in Kisumu today after the Governor was charged in Court with malicious damage to property in Nandi County-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

By Dickson Odhiambo

    

 June 11, 2019.

Nandi Governor charged in Kisumu Court with Malicious damage to property.

Nandi Governor Stephen Sang has today been arraigned in Kisumu Court Charged with Malicious Damage to property.

He was charged that this June 8, he maliciously damaged a four acre tea bushes worth about 2million.

The property the Governor has been accused of maliciously damaging belongs to Kibware Tea Estate in Tinderet within Nandi County.

Appearing before Kisumu Resident Magistrate Beryl Omollo, Governor Sang has also been charged with other two counts.

In the second count, the Governor has been charged with incitement to violence while in the third count, he has been charged with abuse of office.

Governor Sang denied all the three charges levelled against him.

The Court had earlier dismissed application by the defense team of the accused person wanting the court to comply with yesterday's High Court order that was issued preventing the Inspector General of Police ,Director of Criminal Investigations and Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions  from prosecuting the Governor.

Kisumu Resident Magistrate Beryl Omollo has granted the accused person a bond of sh 1 Million with surety of similar amount or an alternative cash bail of shs 500,000.

The case will be heard on September 19 this year. Three Lawyers represented Governor Sang.

The Nandi Governor stayed for a while at the Court cells while his bail was being processed and after nearly thirty minutes he was freed and addressed a gathering of his supporters.

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