MAKADARA MP Gidion Kioko Mbuvi aka Sonko was yesterday granted bail by a Kibera court. The MP is facing two fraud cases. A warrant for his arrest which his lawyers said had not been executed for seven years was cancelled. The court set December 28 for the hearing of the three fraud related cases. The MP is accused of defrauding Tile and Carpet out of Sh2,8 mil-lion in a deal to sell the company land in Kwale district. He is also charged that he defrauded a businesswoman of Ksh500,000 promising to import a car for her. The question of him having escaped from Shimo La Tewa Prison as cleared yesterday after his lawyers Cecil Miller, Paul Muite,Cliff Ombeta among others, presented a release order from the High Court that had set him free. Sonko spent the last three days in police custody after Kibera Chief Magistrate Cecilia Githua denied him bond.
The prosecution had insisted that he be denied bond arguing he may abscond and that they needed time for more investigations. The charge sheet was also amended to correct his names and the charges read to him afresh. He denied the new charges read to him. The flashy 35-year-old politician was granted a Sh l million bond. The fraud related offence he is said charged with are said to have been commit.cd on August 16, 2006 at Tile and Carpet along Mombasa Road in Nairobi. The case will now be heard on December 20. The prosecution is expected to consolidate the case with that of another alleged criminal case in which his co-accused is out on a bond of Sh 1 million. Mbuvi was also granted a bond of Sh500,000 and a similar surety or art alternative cash bail of ,5h300,000 in the case he is alleged to have obtained Sh500,000 fraudulently from Patience Kogo for the importation of a car for her.
He allegedly committed the offence in Mombasa town on November 24, 2009. And in the afternoon, a warrant of arrest issued against him was cancelled. Even before the court session was over, his supporters who were in the courtroom disrupted court proceedings when they brake into song and dance. They were celebrating his re-lease, They quickly rushed out of court to inform more of his sup-porters who had camped outside the court.
