The hearing of Garissa Governor Ali Korane's Sh233 million corruption case failed to proceed on Monday as had been scheduled.
The case, whose hearings began weeks ago, was adjourned as trial magistrate Douglas Ogoti was unavailable.
Korane appeared before chief magistrate Lawrence Mugambi, who told the parties to appear before Ogoti on August 24 for directions.
Ogoti is on transfer to Embu and it's not clear if he will proceed to hear the other witnesses since he had only taken evidence from one of them.
If he decides not to hear the matter, then it will be allocated to another anti-corruption magistrate at Milimani law courts.
In the case, Korane is charged alongside county Finance chief officer Ibrahim Nur Malow, head of Treasury Mohammed Ahmed Abdullahi, Municipality executive Abdi Shale and the Municipal head of accounting Ahmed Abdullahi.
They all denied the graft charges relating to misappropriation of Sh233 million for a World Bank-funded project.
The charges allegedly involve a conspiracy to commit an offence of economic crime, misappropriation of public funds and willful failure to comply with the law relating to management of public funds.
The state claims that they allegedly committed the offences between February 25 and September 30, 2019.
