{"id":141741,"date":"2026-05-21T10:02:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/late-nderitu-gachaguas-son-appeals-jail-term-says-he-was-framed\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:02:58","slug":"late-nderitu-gachaguas-son-appeals-jail-term-says-he-was-framed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/late-nderitu-gachaguas-son-appeals-jail-term-says-he-was-framed\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Nderitu Gachagua\u2019s son appeals jail term, says he was framed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jackson Kihara Gachagua, son of the late former Nyeri Governor Nderitu Gachagua, has moved to the High Court in a renewed bid to appeal his jail term.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kihara, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence at Manyani Prison following his 2019 conviction for robbery with violence, is appearing before Justice Alexander Muteti at the Milimani Court.<\/p>\n<p>He maintains his innocence, alleging that he was framed in an attempt to intimidate him into surrendering documents linked to his late father\u2019s property.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, his appeal was dismissed, but Kihara has once again sought an open court hearing to present what he claims is evidence that the charges were fabricated.<\/p>\n<p>He wants to represent himself, stating that all his lawyers were compromised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional reporting\/photos by Ruth Wamboi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/late-nderitu-gachaguas-son-appeals-jail-term-says-he-was-framed\/\">Late Nderitu Gachagua\u2019s son appeals jail term, says he was framed<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson Kihara Gachagua, son of the late former Nyeri Governor Nderitu Gachagua, has moved to the High Court in a renewed bid to appeal his jail term. Kihara, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence at Manyani Prison following his 2019 conviction for robbery with violence, is appearing before Justice Alexander Muteti at the Milimani [&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-141741","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\/141741","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=141741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}