The Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin have been ordered to appear in court on Monday and explain why Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja’s aide Osman Khalif should not be released from captivity.
Justice Chacha Mwita said the two should produce Osman in court or present themselves for questioning.
The directives were issued after Osman’s wife said the motor vehicle involved in the alleged abduction was at a police station.
The mall along where the alleged abduction happened or its owners were also directed to supply the court, and Osman’s wife with the CCTV footage of November 10 covering the events surrounding Osman’s abduction and the movement of the subject motor vehicle.
The Judge also directed Safaricom to supply Osman’s wife and her legal team with car parking records of the subject motor vehicle.
This is to be done within the next 24 hours.
The Judge noted that the IG has not in any way attempted to comply with directions he issued on Thursday.
The Judge in directing they appear in court on Monday said court orders are not in vain and should not be in vain.
The orders followed after his wife Yasmin Osman filed the application in court.
Through Advocate Eric Theuri, Yasmin told the court that her husband was kidnapped on November 10 at about 4 pm outside the Sarit Centre Shopping Mall
She said his whereabouts remain unknown to date even after reporting the incident at the Pangani police station.
“We were just coming out of Sarit when we met about six unidentified armed people who claimed to have been looking for Osman,” reads the document in part.
Yasmin said people grabbed her husband and took off in a silver motor vehicle.
Yasmin said she tried to resist the abduction process but she was met with violence from the abductors.
“I proceeded to report the incidents of assault and abduction at Parkland police station but there has been no response,” she said.
She argued that the lack of interest from the police officers infer that they are aware of her husband’s whereabouts.
“I am apprehensive that the life of my husband is in grave danger,” she says.
Attempts to request CCTV footage from Sarit Centre were unsuccessful.
