Salim Swaleh pleads for forgiveness

He recorded the video after several failed attempts to reach Mudavadi physically or by sending people.

"A lot of things have been running through my mind. Sometimes I even feel like taking my own life. I lost everything in the blink of an eye," he revealed.

He emotionally pleaded for forgiveness and appealed to his former boss (Mudavadi) to assist him end the legal proceedings.

"Every time we go to court, the lawyers are on my neck, the police are on my neck. Everybody is extorting left, right, and center. They think I have a lot of money, but every time we go there, we are told the prosecution has not received any direction on what should happen to the case," Swaleh lamented.

Swaleh, alongside Otieno Japolo Michael, Terry Kemunto Sese, Daniel Omondi Gogo, and John Musundi Wabomba, are accused of attempting to defraud Nexor-Emea Engineering Consultancy Company of Sh5.8 million.

The prosecution alleged that Swaleh allowed a meeting to take place in his office at the Kenya Railways Headquarters, during which Otieno posed as the Chairman of the Government Delivery Unit in a bid to secure the tender.

He has further revealed that since then his salary has stopped curtailing his financial activities including loan repayment and bills.

"It’s end month, bills are piling up because salaries stopped abruptly. I have loans. Please find it in your heart to forgive me. And secondly, please help end this so I can pick up the small pieces that are left and see where I can begin. With the kind of bad publicity that I got, it is almost impossible to get another place to work. Please have mercy on me." he pleaded.

The DPP had previously approved three fraud charges against Swaleh and his co-accused: Conspiracy to defraud, attempt to obtain money by pretense, and abuse of office.