Fomer Tetu Member of Parliament Ndung'u Gethenji has today failed to appear before a Nairobi court for the second time in forgery case.
Gethenji was to appear before the Milimani Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku for the mention of a case he is accused of forging minutes of a meeting.
The fraud charges relate to Kihingo estate in the upmarket area of Kitisuru in Nairobi.
Lawyers representing the former Mp told the court that he had lost his mother in law and they sought plea to be deffered to allow the accused time to mourn.
The lawyers told Mutuku that the last time the defense were in court they addressed the matter of their client.
The prosecution opposed the application for deferral but it was not allowed.
The prosecution said the last time the matter was mentioned, they were informed the accused had been exposed to someone who had contracted Covid-19 but there were no documents supplied before court to prove.
“When the counsel addressed you virtually in the morning this issue was not addressed and we expected the accused to be in court,”DPP said.
Magistrate Mutuku deffered a plea to December 14, 2020 for plea taking and the accused to produce documents to prove that his mother in law is dead.
Two weeks ago, the MP’s plea was deffered after his lawyers said that he had been in contact with someone who was Covid-19 positive.
He allegedly forged minutes of a board meeting in November 2018 of a company that purported to hold 60 B shares in the Kihingo Village (Waridi Gardens) Management Ltd, the company that controls the upmarket Kihingo estate in Kitisuru, Nairobi.
The minutes sought to appoint Chacha Mabanga as a director of Kihingo Village (Waridi Gardens) Management One Ltd as this would have given control of the 60 B shares to Ndungu so that he could bypass his brother Gitahi who owned equal shares in that same company.
Chacha's appointment as a director was uploaded to the Register of Companies database from Ndungu's mobile phone in 2019 which was rejected by the estate dwellers.
