Nairobi, Feb. 17 -- The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday clashed in court as the latter opposed an application to terminate graft charges against a former Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) boss.

The ODPP had applied to drop the charges against former KPC managing director Charles Tanui who is charged alongside Mr Josephat Kipkoech Sirma (chief engineer, instrumentation and control) and Elias Maina Karumi (chief technical manager).

But the anti-graft commission, in an oral application, opposed the move arguing that only one witness was remaining to testify. In its view, therefore, the trial court was best placed to decide whether the accused persons were innocent or n...