THE STATE MIGHT NOT CHARGE PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN CHRIS OBURE IN KILIMANI SAGA

THE STATE MIGHT NOT CHARGE PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN CHRIS OBURE IN KILIMANI SAGA

By Chris Ojow

Through an oral submission submitted before a

packed Court before Nairobi’s Senior Principal

Magistrate Derrick Kuto, the State Prosecution

while requesting for more days to detain the

respondents Robert Bodo Ouko and Chris Obure

to complete preliminary investigations informed

the court that they are opting to withdraw

any charges against the second respondent

Prominent Businessman Chris Obure.

The sentiments were repeatedly echoed by a

team of Officers of the Court representing the

second respondent Prominent Businessman

Chris Obure led by the Country fearless Lawyer

with Oratory skills, the former EACC Boss Prof

Patrick Loch Otieno Limumba who again

reminded Kibera Law Court Senior Principal

Magistrate Derrick Kuto, that the State has

admitted through their submission before the

Court that they do not intend to charge the

second respondent but are requesting for more

days to get to the root cause and the genesis of

the ugly incendent that occurred at at Kilimani

leading to a young promising man losing his

life where the first respondent alleged that it

was accidental and was very remorseful to the

deceased family

It was over the weekend where it is alleged that

young promising businessman in his 20s lost

his life on arrival at the Capital City Popular

medical Institution within the area, where the

incedent occurred, the cause of the alleged

shooting by alleged young man Robert Bodo

Ouko a father of two minors with one beautiful

wife, is yet to be investigated.

The two respondent were arraigned before duty

Court at Kibera Nairobi County Kenya on

Monday 24th August 2020, through an

application requesting for the addition of more

days to enable Detectives get to the root cause

of the killing of a young Businessman, which

was opposed by the defence on grounds that

the Detectives already acquired all the

materials to assist them in identifying the

cause leading to the death of 28 year old Kevin

Omwenga

It is also alleged that the trusted staff of a

prominent Businessman Chris Obure unlawfully

and intentionally acting on his own, went to his

boss office contrary to office working hours and

without permission illegally took the two safe

keys and opened the safe, stealing his boss

pistol loaded with fourteen round of

amminution and secretly returned the pistol

with one used ammunition to its safe after

wiping it with a cloth to conceal the evidence,

the allegations is in the cctv footage being held

by the respondent Chris Obure which they

intend to give the investigating team and also

use in defending clearing his name from the

alleged reckless act by one of his trusted staff.

After listening to both parties the State and the

respondents through their officers of the Court

led by the Greatest Pan African Advocate Prof

Limumba, Kibera Senior Principal Magistrate

directed the parties to appear before him on

Tuesday 25th August 2020 at 2.30pm East

Africa Time for the ruling.