Keriako Tobiko wants exhumation case reopened

By VINCENT MABATUK

Nakuru, Kenya: Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keriako Tobiko has directed police in Nakuru to urgently investigate an incident where a teacher was maliciously charged with exhumation of a body.

Dan Ashitiva, a primary school teacher, and five others were arraigned before a Nakuru court in 2011 and charged with the offence but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence.

In his letter to Nakuru County Police Commander John Koki, Tobiko said investigations must be concluded and the real culprits brought to book.

Ashitiva had been charged alongside Amos Konyae, who was then a driver with Rongai Constituency Development Fund, Sylvester Totona, an official with CDF, Musa Chemitei, Kimunai Ole Kemeiwa and Francis Thuo.

They were charged after a body was exhumed at a controversial settlement scheme in Rongai, Nakuru County.

Ashitiva wants Nakuru County Secretary (then Rongai District Commissioner) Joseph Motari, Banita Location Chief Julius Wasike, Solai Division Teachers Service Commission official Karuga Irungu and ex-Councillor Joel Nyandieka investigated.

COMPLAINT LETTER

Ashitiva said the four public officers and the former politicians abused their public positions and power in the civil service.

In his protest letter to the DPP, Ashitiva said he lodged a complaint in 2010 before the then Nakuru DCIO Kasim Mshenga who promised to carry out investigations but said no action has been taken.

The DPP also wants Nakuru County CID Commander Scavier Mbogo to produce the complainant’s case file for further interrogation to establish what transpired during the investigations.

However, when contacted by The Standard, the police boss said he is not aware of the complaint.