FORMER Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo will be charged next Thursday with giving false information by allegedly linking former President Daniel Moi’s son to Sh50 million fraud.
He was to appear in court yesterday after he was summoned last week, but his lawyer James Orengo said he was upcountry.
State counsel Daniel Karuri wanted him arrested for failing to honour the summons.
He told chief magistrate Daniel Ogembo Jirongo’s lawyer did not give a valid reason why he could not be in court.
Orengo opposed the warrant of arrest, saying it should only be issued when the subject of the case is unwilling to appear in court or there is evidence of service or refusal to accept service.
He said he was not served the summons.
Ogembo said it is clear Jirongo was not served in person and it would be inappropriate to issue an arrest warrant.
Jirongo will plead to charges of obtaining execution of security by false pretence, giving false information to a public servant and uttering a false document.
The alleged offences were committed between 1992 and 2015.
The charge sheet says on March 27 last year, Jirongo told sergeant Maxwell Otieno he paid Jonathan Moi Sh7 million as an alleged balance for the purchase of Soy Developers Ltd, knowing it was false.
This allegedly happened at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters in Nairobi.