SACKED CLASS 7 DROP OUT CABINET SECRETARY GOES TO COURT SEEKING FOR RELEASE OF HIS GUN, MONEY AND IMPOUNDED VEHICLES

SACKED CLASS 7 DROP OUT CABINET SECRETARY GOES TO COURT SEEKING HIS GUN, MONEY AND IMPOUNDED VEHICLES

By Chris Ojow

Former Kenyan Sports and Heritage Cabinet

Secretary Rashid Mohammed Echesa, who was

appointed by the President of the Republic of

Kenya Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta on 26th of

January the year 2018, secretly filed a one page

application of 600 words seeking for the release

of his impounded vehicles, a gun and his bank

account be unfreeze.

Through his officer of the Court Evans Ondieki,

the applicant Echesa former pupil of Shibale

Primary School from 1990 to 1997 and dropped

out due to fees, filed the application at Nairobi

Milimani Chief Magistrate Court on Monday

18th May 2020 at 10.16 am East Africa Time.

On Monday 02nd March the year 2020,

Detectives from the Director of Criminal

Investigations under serious crimes

department, raided the home of the former

Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) National

Youth Chairman who later joined Jubilee Party

under the Deputy President and impounded five

vehicles allegedly acquired fraudulently.

The one page application drafted on Monday

18th May 2020 and filed on the same day, was

received and rubber stamped by Milimani Chief

Magistrate on the same day, where direction

was also issued as a matter of urgency and the

application to be heard on Tuesday 19th May

2020 at 9am East Africa Time.

The Director of Criminal Investigations

established that the five vehicles belonging to

Rashid Echesa who went for basic formal

education were acquired fraudulently including

the Range Rover Vogue KCR 786H, which was

impounded on February 17th the year 2020

when the former Cabinet Secretary was

arrested at Harambee Annex House over

allegations of being involved in 39 Billions

Kenya shillings fake arms deal.

Former Cabinet Secretary Echesa who was

replaced with Amina Mohammed on 01st

March the year 2019 during a Cabinet reshuffle

by the Head of State and is said to have made

history by becoming the first Cabinet Secretary

in the Country without sitting for Kenya

Certificate of Primary Education, want the lower

criminal Court in Nairobi Milimani to issue

orders releasing his Range Rover Vague Vehicle,

his confiscated gun and unfreezing his bank

account.

The Cabinet Secretary who was sacked on

Friday and appointed in January 2018 where he

only served for one year and one month, in the

application informed the Court that he’s going

through difficulties financially and hence he

was humbly requesting the Court to issue

orders unfreezing his bank accounts.

The village boy from Shibale in Mumias

Kakamega County Kenya and briefly worked at

the struggling Mumias Sugar Company as a

casual labourer, in the application filed before

Chief Magistrate Court Nairobi Milimani

requested for an urgent mention of case

number 271 of the year 2020, for the release of

his gun, car and reopening of his bank account.

Rashid Mohammed who once dared the African

Union (AU) Special Envoy Raila Amollo Odinga

to sack him in public, was arrested on 13th

February 2020 and charged on 18th February

2020 together with his five co accused with

several counts of Conspiracy to commit a

felony, making a document without authority,

obtaining money by false pretence, uttering

false document, forgeries, impersonating and

attempt to commit a felony.

Where he pleaded not guilty before Nairobi’s

Senior Principal Magistrate Kennedy Cheruyiot

at Milimani law Court and fought hard through

his team of lawyers to oppose the State

Prosecution objection on being released on

bond and later after being placed in Police

custody for several days released on hash bond

conditions.

The Former Cabinet Secretary once again, his

name was dragged in the human trafficking

saga, where it was alleged that he signed a

document granting the passage of several

Nepalese youthful girls in their 20s in the

Country as Cultural dancers, only to be arrested

within the City high ends clubs in the leafy

suburbs operating as strip dancers.