Sirisia Member of Parliament John Waluke has suffered a major setback as the High Court declined to stop the corruption case against him.
This becomes a major win for the EACC as they work round the clock to bring corruption perpetrators to book.
Major Waluke is charged with several accounts of fraud alongside businesswoman Grace Wakhungu over a contract his company Erad Supplies and General Contracts Ltd won to supply 40,000 tonnes of maize in 2004.
Waluke had moved to court and filed an application seeking to block the prosecution from continuing with the case but the High Court judge Hedwig O’ngudi, declined to issue the orders stating that the application had not been made in time as stipulated by law.
“I have considered the application and declined to grant any ex-party order for the reason that the petitioners had all the time to file this application and choose to file it today when the hearing before the trial court commences on 21st January,” the court order reads in part.
In August 2018 Waluke pleaded not being guilty as charged in the many counts of fraud relating to the payments in the contract.