BY SAM ALFAN.
A judge has ordered the government to produce missing lawyer Prof Hassan Nandwa in court within 24 hours.
Justice Anthony Mrima ordered the Attorney General and Inspector General of Police to also produce Prof Nandwa’s client Elgiva Bwire within the same period.
The Judge made the order after the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) moved to court seeking the production of the duo produced, whether dead or alive.
The lawyer was kidnapped last week on Friday as he picked his client (Bwire) who completed a 10-year jail term for terrorism charges.
LSK has also sought orders to compel giant telecommunication 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.
