Kelvin Omwenga’s murder: Businessman Chris Obure to be charged with murder

Businessman Chris Obure will now be charged with the killing of fellow businessman Kevin Omwenga.

This is after High Court Judge Mumbi Ngugi dismissed his application that had challenged the decision by the DPP to press murder charges.

Justice Ngugi noted that the only court that can properly receive and unravel the many threads and permutations of a murder charge is the court which will hear the evidence.

“The applicant cannot purport to instruct the office of the DPP on whether to charge him or have him appear as a witness,” she explained.

On Monday, Obure had made an application to be a witness in the murder trial, saying he had been cooperating with detectives.

Reponding to the application on Tuesday, the office of the DPP noted that preliminary investigations placed the businessman in the vicinity of the crime scene on the fateful night, urging the court to strike out the application.

The court also heard that the CCTV footage that placed the businessman’s bodyguard Robert Bodo in the heart of the matter had been tampered with.

In an affidavit by Sergeant Bashir Boya Segelan,the decision to charge the applicant with murder was informed by the sufficiency of evidence on record and the public interest.

“That the contention by the ex-parte applicant that the case against him is oppressive and malicious and amounts to an abuse of court process and is bad in law,” the prosecution says in the response.