•In an application filed at the High Court, Rashid wants the ODPP to review the decision to charge him with the murder of the two.
•The hearing of the Wajir gubernatorial election petition is set to continue. The petitioner's witnesses will be testifying.
Eastleigh-based crime buster Rashid Ahmed Hassan is expected to be charged on Thursday for the murder of two youths in Eastleigh.
He had moved to court to stop his plea-taking scheduled for Thursday.
Last month, IPOA obtained a summons against Rashid to attend court on December 8 and take a plea for the murder of Jamal Mohammed and Mohammed Dhair Kheri.
The offence was allegedly committed on March 31, 2017, at Amal Plaza in Eastleigh.
In an application filed at the High Court, Rashid wants the ODPP to review the decision to charge him with the murder of the two.
Through lawyer Danstan Omari, Rashid argues that IPOA is not acting in good faith and has a bad motive in their decision as he has never been summoned to give any account of the allegations.
Omari filed the case at the Milimani courts accompanied by several lawyers and the Eastleigh business community who all demanded the freedom of Rashid from the case.
However, speaking after the presser by Rashid’s lawyers, Amnesty International boss Irungu Houghton said the application by Rashid to stop his prosecution was premature.
Irungu said Rashid should wait to appear in court on December 8 to defend himself.
“Legal counsel should not panic. They will get their day in court on 8th December,” he said.
Irungu said IPOA summoned Rashid 11 times but he failed to appear, meaning he was given a chance to be heard.
Elsewhere, the hearing of the Wajir gubernatorial election petition is set to continue. The petitioner's witnesses will be testifying.
Last week, the witnesses were at task to demonstrate to an election court that some voters who cast their ballots during the August 9 General Election were not identified using the Kenya Integrated Management System (KIEMS) kits.
This is after Ibrahim Muhamud Abdirahman, one of the key witnesses for the petitioner, Hassan Mohamed of Jubilee told the election that a majority of voters who cast their ballot for all the six elective positions were not identified by the KIEMS.
He said it gave a competitive advantage to Governor Ahmed Abdullahi’s perceived strongholds.
However, Abdirahman could not point out specific polling stations where the kits have failed despite making a blanket claim that the two wards of Arbajahan and Hadado in Wajir West where the first respondent and current governor Ahmed Abdullahi got significant votes, had several voters using alternative voting systems other than KIEMS kits.
During the cross-examination, Abdirahman conceded despite verbally listing Arbajahan and Hadado wards as areas where voters may have been compromised, he did not file an affidavit to support his claims.