Kenya: ODPP Responds to Claims of Withdrawing 1,000 Cases in One Year

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) on Thursday issued a clarification denying that it had withdrawn 1,000 cases as reported by the press.

In a communique to the press, DPP Renson Ingonga singled out one story shared by a local daily on the withdrawal of ex-Mungiki boss Maina Njenga terming it as ‘erroneous reporting’.

Further, the article alleged that DPP had withdrawn 1,000 cases from the courts in the past year, which the prosecution office vehemently refuted.

The…