An Anti – corruption Magistrate Douglas Ogoti has convicted a driver Morris Logedi Shaban to 3 years  in jail or pay a fine of Kshs 600,000 after he was found guilty of offering a bribe of Kshs 15,000 to an EACC and NTSA officer to avoid being tested for alcohol.
Shaban was arrested on 10 th December 2016 along Professor Wangari Mathaai road in Parklands.
The Court was told that he sent  the Money through Mpesa to the officers who had warned him against trying to comprise them. Shaban was accused of corruptly offerring  a benefit of kshs 8000 to Florence Aduor a Public  with NTSA as an inducement so as not to be tested  for the level of alchohol in his body contrary to section  44 of the Traffic Act.
He also faced another charge that on the same date he corruptly  offered a benefit kshs 7000 to Rodgers Akaki a Public officer employed by the Ethic and Anti-corruption  Commission as Acting as an Assistant  Director of Operations Division as an inducement so as not to be tested for the level .
While sentencing him Ogoti  pointed out that the accused
exhibited a mind of a corrupt individual, such that even when he was warned  he went a head and gave a bribe. Ogoti said “Corruption is corruption  in whatever form.”he said.
In mitigation ,Shaban pleaded with  the court saying he was remorseful   and that he was the  sole bread winner. However the court rejected his pleas saying that corrupt individuals must be ready to face the consequences of their actions.