Jimmy Wanjigi gets orders blocking arrest, seven guns found

Detectives and GSU officers break into controversial businessman Jimmy Wanjigi's Muthaiga home in Nairobi, October 17, 2017. /JAMES MBAKA
Detectives and GSU officers break into controversial businessman Jimmy Wanjigi's Muthaiga home in Nairobi, October 17, 2017. /JAMES MBAKA

Businessman Jimmy

Wanjigi and his wife Irene Nzisa have obtained orders barring police from arresting them or destroying their property.

Justice Chacha Mwita issued the

temporary orders on Tuesday and asked the billionaire to pay anticipatory bail of Sh50,000.

This is until October

19, when the

case he has filed is heard and determined.

Recce Squad officers searching Wanjigi's Muthaiga home have found seven guns.

They found six Glock Pistols and a Shotgun, which reports indicate Wanjigi is licensed to hold.

Wanjigi had

moved to court seeking anticipatory bail on any arrest.

The businessman said in his suit that the DPP, through his officers without a court warrant, entered his Muthaiga home on account of a suspected criminal offence committed on his property in Malindi.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Recce Squad broke into the Muthaiga home with the aim of arresting Wanjigi.

He is said to have locked himself up in the house on Monday to avoid arrest after police officers recovered a cache of weapons at another home in Malindi suspected to belong to him.

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