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Reprieve for Echesa as court halts fake arms deal case

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Former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa. [Robert Tomno, Standard]

The Court of Appeal has halted a Sh39 billion fake arms deal case against former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa.

Echesa who is the chairman of Kenya Water Towers Agency is accused of allegedly defrauding two foreigners through a multi-billion-dollar contract to supply military equipment at Harambee Annex, which housed the office of the former Deputy President, now President William Ruto.

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