DPP approves 6 charges against MP Samuel Arama

The Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji has approved six charges to be preferred against Nakuru Town West Member of Parliament Samuel Arama over a land fraud case.

Mr. Arama is accused of colluding with officers at the Nakuru Lands registry to “unlawfully and deceitfully” register a parcel of land to an alleged individual who would then purport to sell the said land to the MP.

The legislator and his co-accused are set to be arraigned in court on Monday to face charges including; abuse of office, conspiracy to defraud and making a document without authority.

They will also face charges of uttering a document with intent to deceive, obtaining registration of land by false pretenses and knowingly misleading an investigator.

“Investigations by EACC revealed that Samuel Arama in collusion with officers from the Nakuru lands registry unlawfully and deceitfully caused illegal registration and issuance of certificate of lease in relation to plot no.6/95 to an alleged individual who has disowned the purported sale agreement entered between Samuel Arama and the alleged individual person,” said the DPP in a statement issued on Saturday afternoon.

The said plot to disposes a businessman of his land is said to have occurred in August 2015.

Mr. Arama was arrested alongside a lawyer at an entertainment joint in Nakuru on Friday night and was taken to Railways Police Station where they spent the night.

EACC detectives were on Saturday looking for three other suspects involved in the scam.