The anti-corruption court will determine if suspended senior Nairobi City County Assembly officers have a case to answer or not.
If senior principal magistrate Martha Mutuku rules that the six officials led by suspended clerk Jacob Ngwele have no case to answer, the charges against them will be dropped and they will be acquitted.
If she rules that they have a case to answer, Ngwele and his colleagues will be put on their defense.
In August 2018, the five City Assembly officers and a businessman were arrested by the DCI and charged with several counts of corruption in relation to a tender for supply of books worth close to Sh1 million.
The Assembly clerk Jacob Ngwele was charged at the Milimani anti-corruption court alongside his deputy Adah Awour.
Others charged included Philomena Nzuki (principal accountant), James Kariuki (senior procurement officer), Fredrick Mwangi (senior finance and planning officer) and Raphael Maluki (proprietor of Primara Ventures).
They were jointly charged with conspiracy to defraud.
The prosecution alleged that between March 6 and July 5, 2017, with intent to defraud the Nairobi Assembly, they flouted procedures in the procurement of books for their resource center by irregularly paying Sh997,926 to Primara Ventures.
Ngwele was separately charged with two other counts of abuse of office and willful failure to comply with procedures and guidelines relating to management of public funds.
Awour, Kavinya, Mwangi and Kariuki were each charged with a count of abuse of office.
Karuiki was charged with undue influence where it was alleged that in March 2017, he instructed Daisy Mueni of procurement to irregularly prepare quotations for four companies including Primara which was contrary to guidelines relating to public procurement.
The court also heard that on July 5, 2017, Mwinzi, being the proprietor of Primara Ventures, unlawfully acquired Sh997,926 as payment for supply of books for Nairobi county assembly resource center.
They were each ordered to deposit a Sh600, 000 bond or an alternative bail of Sh300,000 to secure their freedom.
The case has been ongoing and during one of the mentions, the prosecution kicked off by reading all the six counts against the accused persons.
Amongst the charges the prosecution submitted evidence on included abuse of office, fraudulent false accounting, fraudulent making of payments and undue influence.
However, some staff at the Assembly have complained that the suspended officers have been calling the shots.
The staff who spoke on condition of anonymity said that one of the suspended officers is behind the recent re-deployment of several staff from Assembly to the executive wing.
The staff obtained a court order to stop the redeployment.
Other staff have complained that some of the suspended officers have been bragging to all who care to listen to them that they have already influenced the case and that they will be acquitted soon.