High Court Judge Diana Kavedza has admitted Josiah Kariuki Kimani to an anticipatory bail of Sh 100,000 and at the same time certified the matter as urgent.
The DCI,DPP and IG have however been set at liberty to investigate or charge Kimani for any criminal conduct but they should not arrest or detain him until further orders of the court.
Kariuki is the Chief Executive officer of Silica Booster Limited Innovate Manufacturers (SBL).
Through advocates Danstan Omari, Cliff Ombeta, Sam Nyaberi and Wycliffe Omaiyo, Kariuki told the court that there have been reports of his client’s impending arrest on suspicion that he is the one who has been distributing the alleged fake fertilizer.
He urged the court to intervene and prevent his arrest by granting him anticipatory bail.
“I believe I’m likely to be arrested due to a well-calculated scheme by fertiliser barons in the country,” he told the court.
Kariuki of the company at the centre of fake fertilizer, has denied supplying the National Cereals Produce Board(NCPB) with substandard fertilizer.
He says he is the one who has been paying the government through NCPB, contrary to the allegations that he has been receiving money from the government.
He is the Chief Executive officer of Silica Booster Limited Innovate Manufacturers (SBL).
According him, Kenya Bureau of Standard(KEBS) went to his company and took a sample of his products for analysis.
“I applied through KEBS we went to the company and took a sample of the product a companied with methodology and they issued me with the license and a have everything on WhatsApp.” Kariuki said.
He said when investigative journalist Allan Namu approached him for his side of the story,he suggested that he would give 400 farmers using his fertilizer to be interviewed.
