A former intelligence chief and three other former high-ranking Kenyan officials suspected of involvement in Kenya’s biggest financial scandal were brought to a magistrate’s court on Friday, but their lawyers prevented them from entering a plea. President Mwai Kibaki’s administration has initiated fresh prosecutions in the Goldenberg affair.

A magistrate dropped assault charges against Kenyan First Lady Lucy Kibaki after the attorney general said neither police nor prosecutors have had time to investigate whether she had slapped a television news cameraman on World Press Freedom Day. ”I’m so disappointed,” the cameraman said after hearing the ruling.