The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has withdrawn a case in which ICT Chief Administrative Secretary and former State House Digital Strategist Dennis Itumbi was accused of forging a letter in 2019 alleging of a plot to assassinate then Deputy President William Ruto.
In withdrawing the case, the ODPP cited a lack of enough evidence to prosecute the matter, terming the case against Itumbi and Samuel Gateri as unconstitutional.
In acquitting Itumbi and Gateri, the court termed the whole process of prosecuting the two as a violation of the constitution.
In the case, Itumbi faced three counts including making a false document, publishing a false statement, and reprogramming his mobile phone. He denied all the charges.
The letter Itumbi was accused of forging claimed that a group of high-ranking government officials in former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government held a meeting at La Mada Hotel, off Thika Road in Nairobi to plan the alleged assassination of Ruto.
Itumbi would later be arrested and charged over the said letter which was found to have been shared in a WhatsApp Group dubbed Tanga Tanga movement.
