The Director of Public Prosecutions has dropped charges against two bosses of a company in the Sh1.1 billion scandal at the National Hospital Insurance Fund. Danson Muchemi and Robert Muriithi, the directors of Web Tribe Ltd, will instead act as prosecution witnesses in the graft case against two former NHIF chief executive officers Simeon ole Kirgotty and Geoffrey Mwangi. A letter by Senior Assistant DPP Alexander Muteti stated that the two would make full disclosure of their contract dealings with NHIF and together with their staff appear as prosecution witnesses whenever called upon. Muchemi and Muriithi, as a consequence of the deal reached, applied to be discharged from the case and asked for a refund of the Sh2 million they each paid as cash bail. The two were charged in December 2018, alongside the NHIF officials, with several counts relating to provision of integrated revenue collection system leading to the loss of Sh1.1 billion.

Source: Standard Digital September 24, 2020 06:11 UTC