BY SAM ALFAN.
Businessman and Safina party leader Jimi Wanjigi has obtained court orders blocking the police from arresting or detaining him.
Wanjigi obtained the court order through his lawyer following two days of drama as police officers camped outside his compound at his Muthaiga home planning to arrest him.
Justice Bahati Mwamuye restrained the Inspector General of police or any police officer acting under his instructions from arresting the politician.
“A further conservatory order be and is hereby issued directing the Respondents jointly and severally, their servants, agents, or third parties acting under the direction or authority of the Respondents to immediately free Wanjigi and to take all necessary measures to ensure the same, pending the inter-partes hearing and determination,” the judge said.
The businessman rushed to court fearing that police officers might arrest him for taking part in the demonstrations on Thursday, dubbed Nane nane.
“The Applicant (Jimmy Wanjigi otherwise believes that the Inspector General has no legitimate grounds for arresting him or presenting himself to any police station as demanded by the 1 Respondent and/or preferring criminal charges against him and unless this Court urgently intervenes, attempts to arrest him shall be arbitrary and calculated to embarrass him and cause him psychological suffering without just cause in law,” wanjigi told the court
The court heard that police officers tracked him from Central Business District, teargassed him and trailed him all the way to his residential premises in Muthaiga Estate.
At his home, the officers attempted to forcefully gain entry into his compound on account of Wanjigi’s participation in the peaceful demnonstrations called by the GEN-Z’s.
Wanjigi said he took part in the peaceful demonstrations alongside other Kenyans.
He disowned items allegedly discovered in a car parked outside his residence including four (4) teargas canisters, two (2) Motorola gadgets, seven (7) assorted charges for the pocket phone and one (1) mobile phone.
Wanjigi further said the vehicle , which was towed by police, does not belong to him or any of his associates or affiliates as reported or at all.
Wanjigi believes the said connection has been concocted or conveniently framed to embarrass him, falsely accuse him and is otherwise pretextual and merely meant to settle political scores.
He said he has been subjected to untold mental and psychological anguish in the recent past as police officers have been intimidating, harassing him and trailing him, curtailing his freedom of movement and right to privacy in the pretext that he is funding the nationwide demonstrations called by the GEN-Z’s;
He said he has been subjected to arbitrary threats being made against his life and right to liberty by the IG’s agents.
