A magistrate court has acquitted former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko in the Ksh.357 million corruption case.

At the same time, the court acquitted 16 other suspects linked to the Ksh357 million case.

While making the ruling on Wednesday February 7, 2024 at the Milimani Law Court in Nairobi, Magistrate Eunice Nyutu said there was  no sufficient evidence to warrant the conviction of Sonko and other accused persons.

“The evidence is inadequate to sustain the charges leveled against the accused persons,” she ruled. 

The Magistrate also noted that the prosecution failed to present all the 38 witnesses that were listed in the case. 

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For instance, only 6 witnesses appeared in court to testify against the accused persons.

Sonko and the 16 other co-accused persons were facing a total of 19 graft related charges.

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They were being accused of conspiring to embezzle public money amounting to Ksh357 million from Nairobi City County between May 24, 2018 and March 28, 2019.