The High Court in Bungoma has ordered for sentencing of a man who was acquitted of damage to property charges by a magistrate court a year ago. Justice Stephen Riechi ruled on March 10 that Mzee Nyongesa Wangila, a businessman at Malakisi, be produced before Sirisia Resident Magistrate for mitigation and sentencing. The resident magistrate Caroline Wattimah acquitted Wangila together with his co-accused in 2019 for lack of evidence. But Nyang'au appealed against the ruling on grounds that the magistrate erred in law by acquitting the accused of wrong doing. Riechi in his ruling dated March 10, directed that the case file be returned to Sirisia Magistrate’s court for the sentencing of the accused persons.

Source: The Star March 14, 2021 13:52 UTC