Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu has found solace following the wrath of EACC. Nairobi Women Representative Esther Passaris is pushing for honourable arrests.
Governors are demanding for “honourable arrests” following last Thursday’s seizure of Kiambu County’s Ferdinand Waititu over abuse-of-office charges.
In a day of high drama, EACC detectives raided two of Mr Waititu’s homes — one on Kiambu Road and another at Garden Estate in Runda — and ransacked them for five hours.
Search operations were also conducted in the county offices and homes of the county chief’s family members, directors of private companies, and 10 senior employees.
But the operation seems not to have gone down well with governors who are now demanding to be treated with “decorum” in case of future arrests.
Through their umbrella body, Council of Governors (CoG), the county chiefs say that whereas they do not condone graft, they do not deserve to be treated “guilty as charged even before being subjected to courts of law.”
According to Ms Passaris ruffling up governors and locking them up in cells is not necessary.
Mr Oparanya, the Kakamega Governor, insists the county executives must not be treated as criminals by investigators before being proved guilty.
“You frog match a governor in front of his constituents and family? it is not fair,” Mr Oparanya said.
“You are treating a whole governor as a criminal yet he has not been proved guilty. You are proving him guilty even before he is charged. I find that so bad and they should treat us with some dignity.”
Esther Passaris: Ruffling up governors and locking them up in cells is not necessary; I do not think there is any governor who would fail to show up when summoned to answer to charges because they are representatives of the people #DayBreak@TrevorOmbija @Zindzi_K pic.twitter.com/vVpjO0DswY
— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) May 28, 2019