Mathira election petitioner in civil jail for failure to foot Sh9.5-million-legal billMichael Gichuru at King'ong'o Maximum Prison after being sentenced to one-month civil jail by a Nyeri Court on March 19, 2019. When Gichuru started his legal battle, immediately after the 2017 elections, all he hoped for was justice in what he felt was not a fair contest. Nyeri High Court Deputy Registrar Nelly Kariuki this week jailed Gichuru over his failure to settle the Sh9,518,972 bill that arose from the petition. When The Standard visited him at King’ong’o Prison on Tuesday, he walked into the visitors’ room clutching a copy of the Constitution he had borrowed from the prison library. Although he would not say, The Standard is aware, from court records, Gichuru was employed as an agent for Phyllis Wambura, who came second in the election.

Source: Standard Digital March 22, 2019 05:29 UTC