By Agwanda Jowi.

AN anti corruption court in Kisumu yesterday heard that a former judicial officer demanded 150,000/- from a member of the public so that a favorable judgment could be delivered against his kin who had a pending matter.

A Kisumu Senior Principal Magistrate Mr K Muneeni heard that his former colleague in Kakamega Kathoka Ngomo and a clerk Caroline Nekoye demanded the cash last year.

An investigator with the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission sergeant John Musi told the court that they had complaints that Ngomo had received 120,000/- through the paralegal in order to deliver a favorable judgment.

Musi told the court that they later traced the Bank Account of Nekoye at the Barclays bank in kakamega where the money had been deposited upon receipt from the relative of a complainant in the case.

He said that the Ngomo received the money but never made the judgment at all.

Musi said that they later found out that Ngomo had moved to Embu.

They duo was charged that they on February 10 this year at Golf Hotel in Kakamega received 120,000/- from Vincent Ajuoga in order to give favorable judgment against Michael Ajuoga.

They were released on bonds of 300,000/- each and surety of like amount or an alternative of cash bail of 50,000/-.

Musi told the court that he and the complainant went to Embu and were informed that Ngomo had gone to Mwingi.

He said they later retraced Ngomo in Embu while in the company of the complainant.

Musi said he monitored Ngomo in Embu town up to where he collected the case file from a courier.

He told the court that the complainant was fitted with recorders and told to tape the accused.

Musi told the court that Ngomo was arrested in Embu in chambers together with the file and that he was yet to make the judgment.

The file was yesterday tabled in court as evidence.

Musi told the court that Ngomo refused to sign inventories after the file and his phone had been recovered in his chambers.

He also said he filed an affidavit in investigate the accounts of the paralegal showing the movements of the 120,000/-.

ENDS.