The government is yet to reinstate Kitutu Masaba MP Timothy Bosire’s security detail, despite a court order.
Speaking to the Star on the phone yesterday, the ODM legislator promised to move to court today to sue for contempt. He said he instructed his lawyers James Orengo and Stephen Ligunya to accuse Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery and Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinett of ignoring a court order.
“I’m yet to get my security detail despite my lawyers serving the CS and IG on Thursday,” said Bosire, who is the ODM treasurer. Last Tuesday, Justice Isaac Lenaola ordered the CS and IG to restore the MP’s security detail.
Lenaola said the MP raised an arguable case of discrimination and his safety. Bosire said in a petition filed at the High Court last Monday that his rights have been violated. The MP refused to rise with the rest of the House when President Uhuru Kenyatta asked the joint sitting of Parliament and the Senate for the State of the Nation address to observe a moment’s silence in honour of the KDF fallen of El Adde, Somalia. Bosire said he did not disrespect the security forces. “Actually, it is the President who disrespected them by campaigning and issuing title deeds in the Coast for three days yet our gallant soldiers had been killed,” said the MP.
DEFENDING HIS
STAND ON FALLEN KDF
The MP said: “We have never known how many soldiers died. I have attended the burials of more than nine soldiers who were very young.”
In an article published in a local daily yesterday, the MP said: “I did not stand up with the rest because I believed, and still believe, it was just another PR gesture to appease the public and sweep the many questions about the plight of all Kenyans and our soldiers in Somalia under the carpet.”