THE STANDARD By Kamau Muthoni | March 3rd 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 A court deferred the case in which a man is accused of Sh944 million land fraud after his lawyer said the suspect had contracted Covid-19. Milimani Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi ( pictured) directed that Patroba Odoyo appear before him on April 6 to answer to the charges alongside Peter Gitau, Peter Njoroge and Hoops Shihemi. “I will allow the application and defer plea taking to allow one suspect to heal,” Andayi directed. Odoyo’s lawyer, Emily Nyongesa, explained that Odoyo is in an isolation centre after he contracted the disease. Read More The four had been initially charged separately for forging ownership documents of an 11-acre piece of land in Donholm. Shihemi is a former Kayole chief.