Former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i got a reprieve after the High Court granted him anticipatory bail barring police from arresting him.
High Court Judge Kanyi Kimondo granted the orders after Dr. Matiang’i moved to court on Thursday morning.
The former CS had claimed that he is under imminent threat of arrest by the police and is justifiably apprehensive that his constitutional rights are being violated.
Through his lawyers, Matiang’i filed documents in court,indicating that he received credible information from officers of the Kenya Police that they are under express instructions to arbitrarily capture and arrest him with a view of arraigning him in court for ulterior political motives.
“The powers of arrest by the respondents and the Kenya Police are being abused and misused to harass, intimidate and oppress the applicant and his former cabinet colleagues and the former president; and to achieve extraneous political purposes unconnected with upholding the Law,” he submitted.
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He asked the court to issue a conservatory order restraining the respondents, their servants, agents, junior officers and/ or anybody from effecting and/or anybody from arresting, charging, harassing or otherwise however interfering with him.
Further, he claims that on February 9, 2023, his home was raided, surrounded and cordoned off by police officers who were seeking to arrest him.