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A Nairobi court yesterday acquitted a West African witchdoctor who allegedly conned Tana River Senator Danson Mungatana a whopping Sh76 million in fake petroleum oil business for lack of evidence.

While acquitting Abdoulaye Tamba Kouro (pictured), a Chad National, Milimani Senior Resident Magistrate Ben Mark Ekhubi said the prosecution had failed to prove the accused obtained the money from Mungatana.

The magistrate, however, convicted Kouro on three other counts of being in possession of assorted fake currencies totalling to Sh960,120,000, forgery and obtaining over Sh700,000 by falsely pretending that he was in a position to invest for him in a business.

In these three counts, the magistrate said that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that Kouro committed the offences.

Kouro had been charged with obtaining Sh76 million from Mungatana on diverse dates between April 20, 2011 and April 29, 2013, in Hurlingham, Nairobi.

The court heard that he allegedly defrauded Mungatana of the colossal sum pretending that he was in a position to invest the money in the oil industry.

Besides Mungatana, Kouro had also been charged with defrauding Makau Muteke $6,796 (Sh700,000) through pretext he was to invest it in business on March 9, 2017.