Nairobi Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi has issued a warrant of arrest against Nandi Hills Member of Parliament Alfred Keter after he failed to appear in court for mention.
Keter was scheduled to appear in court for for pre-trial hearing of the Ksh.633 million Treasury Bond forgery case alongside two others, businessmen Arthur Sakwa and Madat Saburali. Today’s case was to confirm whether exhibits and other documents the prosecution intends to rely on the case have been supplied to the defence.
Keter is charged alongside two co-directors of Desai Industries – Madat Chatur and Arthur Sakwa.
Their case will be mentioned on February 14.
The prosecution had lined up 13 witnesses and 16 exhibits.
He had been arrested for allegedly trading in forged Treasury Bills valued at Sh633 million.
Central Bank communications director Wallace Kantai said: “The three individuals have been arrested for presenting forged Treasury Bills purportedly issued by the CBK in the 1990s.”
The arrests came amid Keter’s troubles with Jubilee Party. In January, President Uhuru Kenyatta summoned him and three other MPs who defied a directive to resign from the committees they were elected to head.
The other three were Moiben’s Silas Tiren, Marakwet MP David Bowen and Emgwen’s Alex Kosgey.
They defied instructions by Deputy President William Ruto to relinquish the seats they had won, against their party’s wishes.