A Deputy Chief of Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and two others have been charged with conspiracy to commit a felony

November 15, 2024

Court heard that John Kyovi Mutua, a Chief of Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Elvis Motari Bikundo and Jared Gisemba Keburi on diverse dates between April 2023 and June 2024, at an unknown place within the Republic of Kenya, jointly with others not before the court, conspired to commit a felony, namely forgery.

Kyovi was handed with three additional charges relating to abuse of office and three other on forgery.

Prosecuting Counsel Rodgers Alloo told court that on diverse dates between April 2023 and June 2024 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office in Nairobi, Kyovi being a person employed in the Public Service as the Deputy Chief of Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, without authority, made three fraudulent diplomatic notes one undated, and two others dated 18th and 22nd May 2023, in abuse of authority to his office.

Kyovi allegedly forged three Diplomatic correspondences purporting them to be genuine Diplomatic notes made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Gisemba faced other charges of obtaining Ksh.2,340,000 from five different individuals by falsely pretending that he was able to process their US Visa, a fact he knew was false.

All the accused persons pleaded not guilty before Senior Principal Magistrate Monicah Maroro and each was released on a bond of Ksh.500,000 or cash bail of Ksh.50,000.

The court further directed the accused persons to deposit their passports in court and to seek permission of the court if they intend to travel abroad.

Case to be mentioned on 9th December 2024.

Mr. Alloys Kemo is the Deputy Director in the Department of Prosecution Training Institute (PTI). Mr. Kemo is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and was admitted to the bar on 1995. He holds a Master’s of Science in Leadership & Governance from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) , LLB Degree from Nagpur University, and a postgraduate diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.

Mr. Kemo has previously served as a Regional Head, Coast Region between 2019 to 2021 before heading to Rift Valley as a Regional head. He has also served as a deputy head in the Department of offences against the person and Head of the Penal Code Offences Division between 2013 to 2018 at the Office of the Direction of Public Prosecutions.

He has also been a member of several committees that developed key prosecution policies and guidelines such as; the ODPP Act of 2012, National Prosecution guidelines, the Diversion policy, Diversion guidelines, the Plea bargain guidelines and The Decision to Charge guidelines amongst others. He also attended several prosecution courses in various thematic areas and in management and in Leadership.

Mr. Kemo has vast experience electoral Justice and lead the ODPP Election Offences Prosecution Team in the 2017 National General Elections and also the ODPP Election Preparedness Committee in the 2022 National General Elections. He is a trainer and has facilitated external trainings and also internal training for ODPP staff.

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