Editor's Review

The Public Service and Gender CS nominee is expected to be vetted today by Parliament.

Public Service and Gender CS nominee Aisha Jumwa can now breathe a sigh of relief in a pending murder case against her.

This is after the prosecution on Tuesday, October 18, told the court that the family of the deceased in the case requested that the matter be sorted outside the court.

The former Malindi MP is accused alongside her bodyguard, Geoffrey Otieno, of killing a man during by-elections in Ganda Ward, Malindi in 2019.

The CS nominee has already applied to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji to be a state witness in the case.

The development comes even after the DPP last week dropped a Sh19m graft case against the former Malindi MP.

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DPP Noordin Haji.

Jumwa was on August 31, 2021, charged with misappropriation of Sh19m CDF cash at a Mombasa court.

The former MP and the other accused persons were facing charges of conspiring and defrauding Sh19,007,539.60 allocated to NG-CDF Malindi Constituency by the National Government with respect to Tender number MLD/NG-NDF /SP/05/2017/2018 for the proposed construction of Sub-County Education office block.

With the graft case being dropped and the family of the deceased in the murder case against her, Jumwa has been handed a boost as she prepares to face the vetting committee on Tuesday, October.

Azimio coalition party had earlier maintained that it had directed its MPs not to approve CS nominees who had criminal cases in court.