BY SAM ALFAN.
Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has gone to court to compel the government to produce missing Lawyer Prof Hassan Nandwa together with his client Elgiva Bwire.
The lawyers’ umbrella body wants the duo produced dead or alive, within 24 hours of the issuance of the order.
In a petition, LSK is also seeking an order compelling giant telecoms company Safaricom to provide Prof Nandwa’s mobile phone call records and BTS (Base Transmitting Station) records and logs of his client from 9:00 a.m. on Thursday October 28, 2021 to November 2, 2021 midnight.
“An order be issued compelling Safaricom Limited to supply the 1st Petitioner and produce before this Hon. Court the phone call records and BTS (Base Transmitting Station) records and logs of 2nd Petitioner, advocate from 9:00 a.m. on Thursday 28th October 2021 to 2nd November, 2021 midnight pending the hearing and determination of this Petition “, pleads LSK.
LSK argues that Prof Nandwa is a member of the society who practices as an advocate and an Islamic scholar.
The lawyer went missing on October 28 while on his way from his office located within Jamia Mosque to his residence on Ngong Road in Nairobi. His whereabouts still remain unknown.
Prof Nandwa had represented Bwire, a terrorism convict, who vanished soon after release from Kamiti Maximum Prison on the October 28.
Bwire was received by his mother in the presence of the 2nd Petitioner by the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit officers.
“On October 28,2021 at around 4.30pm, Prof Nandwa reported at Central Police Station the abduction of his client, the said Bwire and between 11pm and midnight, nine armed men who identified themselves as Police Officers stormed the residence of the Bwire”, LSK adds.
LSK adds that the said armed Police Officers, indicated that they were looking for Bwire who was Prof Nandwa’s client.
