A herbalist who is alleged to have duped Tana River Senator Danson Mungatana Sh 76 million using charms has been set free.
In the case the Chadian Herbalist Abdoulaye Tamba Kouro was charged with obtaining 76 million shillings from Tana River senator Danson Mungatana.
Magistrate Ben Mark Ekhubi ruled that the prosecution did not prove the case against him.
He ruled that the prosecution did not call the bodyguard who Mungatana had told the court that everytime the accused gave him money was there .
According to the magistrate the bodyguard was a critical witness inthe case whom the prosecution failed to call.
However the court convicted him of three other counts that of forgery.
“I find prosecution has failed to discharge the burden that accused obtained money from. Mungatana. It was the accused persons word against mungatana…I find with empathy that burden was not discharged. He is acquitted”court ruled
He was however found guilty of being in possession of papers intended to resemble and PSS as currency notes and other two counts
