The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has appealed against a court order barring the State from probing Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho’s academic papers.
This comes even after NASA Leader Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta buried the hatchet and struck a deal of uniting the country.
In October last year, Justice Erick Ogola had dismissed the case ,ruling that probe were meant to discredit the governor, adding that the investigations were untimely.
But Mombasa assistant DPP Alexander Muteti on Thursday appealed the decision saying that the judge had misdirected himself by considering the status of Joho as the governor and that he should have considered Joho as a normal citizen in arriving to his finally decision.
Muteti accused the judge of misdirecting himself by declaring that the DPP, DCI, IG and AG launched the investigations on directions of President Uhuru Kenyatta.
He further said Ogola misconstrued the purpose of the investigations as being geared towards stopping the governor from defending his seat in August 8 General Election 2017.
Appellate judges Alnashir Visram, Martha Koome and Wanjiru Karanja ordered the DPP to serve Governor Joho within 14 days.
Joho is also expected to respond to the appeal in 14 days.