Haji wants suspects in Solai dam disaster charged afresh
Patel Coffee Estates managing director, Perry Mansukhlal, appears before the Senate ad-hoc committee investigating the Solai Dam tragedy, on July 18, 2018.
Naivasha High Court Judge Richard Mwongo had in April ordered the retrial of Patel dam owner Perry Mansukh, farm manager Vinoj Jaya Kumar and seven others who had been acquitted of 48 counts of manslaughter.
The suspects were arraigned on 48 counts of manslaughter in relation to the tragedy in which 48 people were killed and hundreds others displaced.
The other suspects are Johnson Njuguna, Luka Kipyegen, Winnie Muthoni, Jacinta Were, Tomkin Odo Odhiambo, Willie Omondi and Lynette Cheruiyot.
The state wants the nine suspects in the Solai dam tragedy case to be charged afresh after the High Court ordered their retrial.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (ODPP), through Mr Alexander Muteti, has applied to have the suspects who are facing manslaughter charges to take fresh pleas.
