THE City Inspectorate director has one week to provide information relating to four officers accused of killing a hawker, the High Court said yesterday.
Justice James Wakiaga directed Humphrey Wambugu to release the information or be summoned to explain why he is withholding it.
Wambugu is to give the data to the Director of Public Prosecutions and the probation office.
Inspectorate officers Ambani Akasi, Alfred Ogesi, Protus Sakala and Julius Ochieng are on trial for the murder of Irungu Kamau on September 16 last year.
The four were scheduled to argue their bail application before Justice Wakiaga.
However, state lawyer Catherine Mwaniki told court the county inspectorate has refused to cooperate.
She said probation officers have gone to the county offices to get information about the accused persons, but the office has refused to help them.
Wakiaga said the four, who want to be released on bail pending trial, will only argue the application once the information is provided.
The officers are said to have killed Kamau at Nyam Hotel on Duruma Road, Nairobi.
DPP Keriako Tobiko directed they be charged with Kamau’s murder following a complaint by Nairobi Senator Gideon Sonko.
Before they were arrested, Sonko had offered a Sh100,000 reward for information on the killing.
The senator, who claims Sakala was the leader of a gang terrorising hawkers in the city, had threatened to resign if the authorities failed to take action against rogue city askaris.
The judge set the mention for February 24.
