Geoffrey Vaki

He was in court, charged with conspiring to defeat the course of justice. This is the second case against the former police commissioner on the same charges. They both revolve around the same allegations.

The case was dismissed by Magistrate Cosmas Bidar after he found that the police prosecution team had been relying on the same set of evidence that was presented in court back in 2014.

The Committal Court found that evidence was insufficient to commit Vaki to stand trial at the National Court.

 They appeared with both of Vaki’s guarantors to finalise the bail variation after he was granted K3, 000 bail yesterday.

Yesterday Bonner named himself as one of the guarantors in the bail application however that has been changed.

A Matthew Kipott has been named as one of Vaki’s guarantors alongside Vaki’s younger brother Philip.

Both men pledged K1,000 before the court to ensure the former police commissioner attends all scheduled court hearing dates and adheres to his bail conditions.

Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia in a 27 page ruling convicted Vaki for wilfully refusing to execute a warrant of arrest against the Prime Minister Peter O'Neill last year.

He was found guilty today (Wednesday) for refusing to arrest O’Neill during a certain period that was not covered by an interim stay order issued by the National Court.

Sir Salamo said Vaki took a number of steps to delay the arrest including making public statements that he would not arrest the Prime Minister anytime soon until he was satisfied that the case against the Prime Minister was watertight.