Noordin Haji: I am not afraid to leave office

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Noordin Haji, says he is not worried about losing his post after an application was filed for his removal from office.

"If the President sets up a panel to investigate me and it is found that I should resign, I am a man of God and I know he has good plans for me. This chair does not belong to my mother, ”he said.

Haji asked anyone who could prove he was involved in corruption to submit it to the court so that he could oppose it.

"If the PSC's civil service recruitment commission, I feel I should leave, I will not be in this position forever. I know that, and that is why I have a term and that term will end, ”Haji said on Wednesday night in an exclusive interview with channel one television.

Haji said he is not afraid to handle any case, but reiterated that his office will handle cases that have sufficient evidence and that have a criminal record.

He said it was unfortunate that the public had been made to believe that his office did not want to run some cases, but the reality was that the evidence had to be of some kind in order for the cases to proceed.

So far five applications have been submitted to the PSC, with the petitioners accusing Haji of abusing power and violating Chapter Six of the country's constitution.

The director of public prosecutions, however, dismissed the allegations as baseless.

"I have never been involved in corruption. I will present my evidence and oppose the application, ”said Haji.

In Haji's first plea, the late Tob Cohen's sister, Gabrielle Van Straten, accuses the director of public prosecutions of misconduct in connection with the murder of his brother.

In the second application, businessman Francis Nyaga Njeru, accuses Haji of failing to comply with the constitution in a $ 150 million land case against businessman Ahmed Rashid Jibril and his wife Farah Ali Mohamed.

In the third application, former Jack and Jill Schon general store clerk Ahmed Noorani is proposing that Haji be fired for handling unfair cases in which fellow businessman Rajendra Ratilal Sanghani, failed to pay his $ 167 million debt. He claimed that Haji closed the file before completion of the case.

In a lawsuit filed by First Ile, Grace Nginda Ita, filed a motion for dismissal of Haji for improper handling of cases in which the shares of her late husband Silas M’Mjamiu Ita, were transferred through a burglary at a company owned by the late businessman Tob Cohen.

And in the fifth application, Charles Waithaka, calls on the PSC to investigate Haji for corruption, favoritism, ethnicity, lawlessness and incompetence in the workplace.