By Grace Gilo
A businessman has been found guilty by a Nairobi Anti-Corruption court of bribing a female police officer with Ksh. 100,000.
Paul Mwangi Warutere was sentenced to pay a fine of Ksh. 300,000 or face two years in prison after prosecuting Counsel Victor Onyiego successfully proved the bribery charges against him beyond a reasonable doubt.
According to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODDPP, Warutere provided Ksh. 100,000 to a Police Corporal stationed at Central Police Station in Nairobi County, intending to secure favourable treatment from the investigating officer in Milimani case CR.NO.2155 OF 2019, where he, along with his father and wife, faced charges of conspiracy to defraud millions of shillings.
“Warutere gave Ksh. 100,000 to a Police Corporal attached to Central police station within Nairobi County with the aim of gaining favours from the investigating officer in Milimani CR.NO. 2155 OF 2019 in which the accused person, his father and wife were charged with conspiracy to defraud millions of shillings,” stated the ODPP.
The bribe was offered on January 16, 2020.
Principal Magistrate Isabellah Barasa imposed a fine of Ksh. 150,000 or, in default, a two-year sentence for the bribe offered to the police officer, along with an additional fine of Ksh. 150,000 or another two years in prison for the Ksh. 100,000 bribe.
“Principal Magistrate Isabellah Barasa sentenced Warutere to a fine of Ksh.150,000 or in default to serve 2 years for offering a bribe to a police officer and to pay another fine of Ksh.150,000 in default serve 2 years imprisonment for giving a bribe of Ksh.100,000 to a police officer,” wrote the ODPP.
The magistrate ordered that the sentences be served consecutively.