Felony officer on the Kenya Medical Providers Authority (Kemsa) has dragged his former classmate to courtroom for allegedly putting him up.

Evans Cheruiyot claims that Titus Barasa Makhanu secretly recorded their conversations on a smooth, for provision of felony services, to the state corporation. He then took the recordings to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption commission to research him for soliciting a bribe.

“He set me up by recording our communication and took them to EACC to investigate and prosecute me for allegedly soliciting a bribe. The fee can not rely upon the recording to investigate me because it changed into acquired with out my consent,” stated Cheruiyot.

The Kemsa prison officer desires the court to forestall EACC from investigating, arresting or charging him because of the recordings by using his buddy and former classmate on court that the evidence is inadmissible for violating his proper to privateness.

Cheruiyot in his affidavit said that Makhanu become his classmate at Moi college faculty of regulation and once they completed university, he become hired by means of Kemsa whilst his pal went into private exercise.

He stated Makhanu become then indexed as one of the private advocates to behave for the state business enterprise and that they have been attractive each other in their reputable potential and as acquaintances.

“because of that, I always ensured that the prison instructions assigned to my classmate would accept the eye required and carried out within the nice hobby of Kemsa,” said Cheruiyot.

Due to the closeness, Cheruiyot alleged that Makhanu stored calling and sending him messages among June and September 2021 to invite about the organisation’s plans you obtain prison services for some upcoming court instances.

He stated that he agreed that they meet and talk the matter however unknown to him, Makhanu had secret devices to document their conversation in audio and video layout.

“3 days when we met, he informed me he had a video and audio recording of our communique in which he claimed i used to be worrying a bribe so that I approve his felony costs. This was supposed to blackmail and manage me to approve his bidding for felony offerings,” stated Cheruiyot.

He added that on October 8, 2021, he became suspended from workplace by means of Kemsa board given that that they had obtained court cases that he solicited a bribe from Makhanu. He was directed to document a statement with EACC.

In line with Cheruiyot, he reported to EACC as directed simplest to research that that they had the name of the game video recordings which they performed and asked him to provide an explanation for why he changed into soliciting a bribe from his former classmate.

“inside the recordings, it's far glaring that it was Makhanu who stored on talking about cash for the duration of our communique which pressured me to enroll in ine unaware that it became a fixed up,” said Cheruiyot.

Girl Justice Esther Maina directed Cheruiyot to serve EACC and Makhanu with the utility for them to reply and time table the hearing on Thursday.