Youthful contractor Stephen Masinde has filed an assault case against Kimilili MP Dididmus Barasa.
According to his lawyer Brian Khaemba, witness statements have already been recorded by Kimilili police, a P3 Form filled and the crime scene visited, paving way for the case to start.
“This sets the motion for the arrest and prosecution of the MP to face charges of causing grievous bodily harm, an offence which carries a maximum sentence of life of imprisonment," Khaemba said.
Barasa is alleged to have beaten Masinde on Friday after the contractor attempted to bar him from commissioning the classes he (the contractor) had built until he was paid.
Trouble started when the MP arrived at the Kamukuywa ward school to open the classes built by the National Government Constituency Development Fund, but discovered that the contractor had locked them.
Masinde, who is also a popular musician in Western, and his colleague Ronald Graham Wafula said they had been contracted by the constituency to build five classes at Baptist Lurare primary school in Kimilili, however they were still owed Sh3.4 million.
The two contractors claimed that their efforts to have Barasa pay them has been futile because he has been dodging them.
Speaking at a function after the incident Barasa refuted assaulting the contractor describing him as a friend he was just correcting.
He said it was wrong for a contractor to close classrooms and bar children from accessing them, saying matters of government debts have a way of being dealt with.
“That is not how the government operates, if you have done work with the government, there is a procedure of getting your money not such primitive behaviour,” he said.
-Edited by SKanyara
