This archive report was first published on 10 December 2019.
Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja has spoken out against the police handling of Governor Mike Sonko during his arrest in Voi last week.
According to Sakaja, there was a better way of handling a governor who has been elected by the people, terming as unnecessary, the pushing around and physical elements that characterised Sonko’s arrest.
‘I think there would have been a better way of handling a governor who is elected by the people, in this case. Even after he had been arrested we saw him being pushed around a lot of the physical elements of it I do not think were necessary of right. Unless it is people trying to release different pressures,’ said Mr Sakaja.
On December 9, 2019, Sakaja expressed his sentiments on Twitter, stating that every accused person deserves to be treated with dignity.
‘We saw him being pushed around…Every accused person deserves to be treated with dignity,’ Sakaja tweeted.
Governor Sonko is facing charges of corruption over the loss of more than Sh357 million from the county government’s coffers.
He is in remand awaiting the ruling of his bail application after being arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts on Monday.
The incident has sparked mixed reactions from Kenyans online, with some defending Sakaja’s sentiments and others criticizing him for not speaking out against corruption in Nairobi.
