{"id":114093,"date":"2025-04-23T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/waititu-granted-leave-to-amend-his-appeal-seeking-release-on-bail\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:05:04","slug":"waititu-granted-leave-to-amend-his-appeal-seeking-release-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/waititu-granted-leave-to-amend-his-appeal-seeking-release-on-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Waititu granted leave to amend his appeal seeking release on bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 23 \u2013 The High Court has allowed former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu leave to amend his appeal seeking release on bail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ex-Governor has two days to submit a new application in which he wants to introduce new evidence and additional grounds to support of his case.<\/p>\n<p>Waititu, who has been in prison since February following his conviction in a corruption case, is seeking to be released on bond pending the hearing and determination of his appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The former governor was sentenced to 12 years in prison or a fine of Sh53 million after the magistrate\u2019s court found him guilty of corruption-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Lucy Njuguna had rejected his first bid for bond on March 3, 2025.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 23 \u2013 The High Court has allowed former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu leave to amend his appeal seeking release on bail The ex-Governor has two days to submit a new application in which he wants to introduce new evidence and additional grounds to support of his case. Waititu, who has been in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}