An activist has moved to court seeking to compel the court to order DCI Director George Kinoti to arrest businessman Jimi Wanjigi for being in possession of illegal firearms and ammunition.
Memba Ocharo alleges that Wanjigi who is a former senior police reservist is a danger to the members of the public due to the number of guns in his possession.
Through Lawyer Danstan Omari, Ocharo says Wanjigi possesses a grave danger and risk to the members of the public as no one citizen should have in their custody 688 ammunitions and about 11 guns.
Ocharo has sensationally claimed in the court papers that Wanjigi was a former Inspector of Police (reserve) who was stripped of all his police powers and ordered to surrender all his firearms and ammunition in his custody.
This, he claims, followed numerous incidences and complaints about his misuse of firearms.
“Long after the interested party was dismissed from employment with the Police Service for misuse of firearms in threatening and intimidating members of the public, he has been a licensed firearms holder until January 30, 2018, when the licensing board revoked his Firearms Certificate,” the application reads.
Ocharo further says in 2017, the DCI conducted a search in Wanjigi’s Muthaiga home and recovered seven firearms and 688 rounds of ammunition.
He claims that the recovery of the firearm and ammunitions amongst which were lethal prohibited arms has been a subject of a long court battle which has led to the court sentencing Kinoti to four months in jail for refusing to release the guns to Wanjigi.
According to court papers, on Friday last week, the Firearm Licensing Board Chair Daniel Semei wrote to Wanjigi’s lawyers informing him that he had sued the wrong parties.
Ocharo is also apprehensive that Wanjigi will soon receive the firearms and ammunition that were initially confiscated by the firearms licensing board.
Edited by D Tarus
