The anti-corruption court in Nairobi has jailed four former top officials who served at City Hall during Governor Evans Kidero’s reign.
Justice Esther Maina handed over a combined sentence of 30 years in the Ksh18 million fraud case.
The former county officials were also given the option of paying a total fine of Ksh21.4 million in lieu of imprisonment.
Justice Maina made the ruling after she overturned an earlier decision by a trial magistrate.
The judge said the trial magistrate had erred in acquitting them since there was sufficient evidence to support the graft charges.
The magistrate Kennesy Bidali, had acquitted them on January 11, 2018, on grounds that there was insufficient evidence.
But in her judgement, Justice Maina said that the trial magistrate made a legal blunder by acquitting the suspects when there was sufficient evidence by the prosecution proving that they had committed the economic crimes.
“Mr Kiamba and Ms Ndegwa acted in blatant violation of the law governing public procurement and ought not to have been acquitted. It is my finding therefore that the magistrate erred in acquitting them when the prosecution had produced overwhelming evidence of proving their guilt,” Justice Maina ruled.
