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A Nairobi court has jailed former nominated Senator Joy Gwendo for two years when she pleaded guilty to fraud charges amounting to Sh1.7 million from a cooperative society in Kisumu.
Ms Gwendo, the first former sitting senator to be locked up, was handed the sentence on Friday for abuse of office and failure to honour a plea bargain she entered into with the state to pay Sh1.7-million she fraudulently received.
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“..It is noteworthy that she executed a plea bargaining agreement yet she was sure that she could not honour the same. She was hoodwinking the court and therefore lied,” the judge ruled. The court found Gwendo dishonest and ordered that she be jailed without the option of a fine due to “hoodwinking the court.” In her mitigation, Gwendo had told the court that she was remorseful and chose to enter into a plea bargain.
She was however denied the right to appeal with court saying it had considered the mitigation. Your opinion is valuable. 
In January this year, the former nominated senator was accused of forging a Sh200, 000 cheque drawn from a Kenya Commercial Bank account in favour of Kivuli Development Initiative and signed by Willy Kipkorir Bett.
An abuse of office charge also stated that she used her position as a state official to confer a benefit of Sh2 million. “On the 23rd day of October 2016 at Chiga Parish in Kisumu East within Kisumu County used her position as a State officer to confer herself Ksh.2,226,800 the property of Kisumu East Cotton Growers Cooperative Society through Kivali Development Initiative,” the charge sheet read.
Gwendo first appeared in court in January after EACC detectives arrested her. The director of public prosecutions Keriako Tobiko gave a nod to EACC to arrest and charge the senator for issuing a bouncing cheque to members of a cooperative society in Kisumu on diverse dates between October 2016 and December the same year.