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Kenya: MP Rigathi Gachagua Asks Court to Return His Passport

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Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua wants the anti-corruption court to release his passport to allow him to travel to Dubai for an official function.

Mr Gachagua has sought the release of the travel documents to enable him to attend his parliamentary duties outside the country.

His lawyer Gibson Kimani on Friday told Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Rose Makungu that the MP is scheduled to fly to Dubai with a parliamentary committee.

The travel documents were deposited in court last month as a condition for his release on bail pending determination of the Sh7 billion graft case facing him and nine others.

The magistrate directed that the court will give its ruling on the application on Monday.

During the virtual mention of the case, the Defence lawyers informed the court that the documentary evidence furnished to them by the investigators is not complete. The lawyers said several pages are missing.

The case had been called for a pre-trial conference to confirm whether the prosecution side has supplied the Defence with all witness statements and documentary evidence so that the case can proceed to a hearing.

Magistrate Makungu stated that since the investigators have not supplied some pages of the documentary evidence, the case will be mentioned again virtually on October 6 to confirm compliance on disclosure of evidence.

At the same, the court allowed an application by another accused person, Lawrence Kimaru, to substitute his cash bail of Sh500,000 with a bond similar amount.