EACC to use dead man’s statement to recover Sh283mThe Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has been allowed to produce in court a dead man’s statement as proof in its quest to recover Sh283 million lost in a public cemetery land deal. Three appellate judges said the document was admissible under the Evidence Act, having been given in previous proceedings. In the case that was filed by EACC on November 2, 2017 at the High Court’s Anti-Corruption Division, the commission sought to have the statement admitted as evidence without calling Kilonzi as a witness. The statement is said to have been part of the documents filed in a case in which EACC is seeking to recover the money arising from the cemetery land deal transaction, from Kilonzi. EACC told the court it intended to have the deceased’s statement produced by the investigating officer “not to prove its contents, but to prove that the statement was made by the deceased”.

Source: Standard Digital April 27, 2020 21:00 UTC