Former Bonchari MP Pavel Oimeke will today know his fate in a case where he was charged with demanding a Sh500,000 bribe from a petrol station attendant.
Oimeke was charged with demanding cash from Wycliffe Oyoo when he was the director general at the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority.
“He sent a message on the phone, I gave EACC investigators a printout,” Oyoo said when he testified before Milimani Anti-Corruption Court chief magistrate Peter Ooko.
Oimeke was accused of committing the offence on December 10, 2019.
He denied the charge and was released on a cash bail of Sh200,000.
The witness said the message, asking for the bribe was sent to him through a mobile phone and the amount demanded was for authorising the re-opening of Nyang’inja Filling station in Oyugis, Homa Bay county.
The MP received Sh200,000 bribe from Oyoo so that he could authorise the unsealing and opening of the petrol station.
Ooko will deliver his judgment this morning.
Elsewhere, further directions will today be given in a case where the Law Society of Kenya and Katiba Institute petitioned the High Court to stop the assumption of office of the 50 CAS appointees of President William Ruto.
The court had last week issued orders barring the CASs from assuming office just moments after they formally took the oath of office at State House in Nairobi.
The CAS appointees who are listed as interested parties have asked the court to dismiss the petition citing lack of jurisdiction.
That application was made by lawyer Adrian Kamotho acting on behalf of Dennis Itumbi who was appointed the CAS in the ICT and Blue Economy Ministry.
