Uasin Gishu Senator Jackson Mandago and two co-accused have been freed on a Ksh.2 million bond with a Ksh.2 million surety or a Ksh.500,000 cash bail.

Senior Principal Magistrate Alloyce Ndege ordered the three to return later to enter a plea while they were in front of the Nakuru court on Thursday.

The Senator is one of three people receiving attention over the scandal-plagued Finland and Canada Overseas Education Program.

Joseph Maritim, the first respondent; Meshack Rono, the second respondent; and Joshua Lelei, the third respondent, are the three.

Maritim still has an arrest warrant out for him even though he skipped the court because he is now abroad.


The bond conditions should also apply to Sam Yego's client Maritim, and the arrest warrant should be revoked.

He stated, "My client is not a fugitive, he was not notified to appear in court today, nor was he summoned to record a statement."

"I have explained why he is in Canada and he went there way before investigations commenced. As to why he is singled out among the four accused persons for a warrant of arrest I do not understand."

They are accused of planning to steal Ksh. 1.1 billion from an Eldoret-registered Kenya Commercial Bank account belonging to the Uasin Gishu Education Trust Fund was meant to pay for scholarship recipients' tuition at foreign universities.


The Senator was interrogated after appearing before the DCI on Wednesday before being taken to the Central Police Station in Nakuru East on Wednesday night, where he spent the night.