Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji now claims that former Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss George Kinoti pressured him to charge Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
Speaking on KTN News during an interview Haji alleged that Kinoti pressured him through the media to charge Gachagua.
“On DP Gachagua’s charges, the decision was made on the threshold.
“We were pushed by DCI boss himself through the media.
“We felt there was sufficient evidence to charge but later we discovered the documents were forged,” he said.
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Haji’s revelation comes days after Kuriah Obadiah,a DCI detective, claimed that Kinoti directed him to frame Gachagua in a Sh200 million graft case.
Obadiah claimed that Kinoti directed them to act promptly to ensure Gachagua was arrested and charged despite lack of satisfactory evidence.
“Due to pressure from our boss, we were not able to cover crucial areas of the investigations that would have shed some light on the case,” he said in the affidavit
The DPP said that several DCI officers had confessed to being coerced and threatened to take some actions .
He says their claims are under investigation.
“If you look at some of the affidavits they have said that they were coerced and threatened.
“If there was coercion, then that person has to face the law,” he added.
He claims that even DCI officers were afraid of the disbanded Special Service Unit, which was linked to extrajudicial killings.
