On Thursday, February 9, former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i applied for anticipatory orders to protect him from being arrested.
This was after police officers reportedly stormed his Karen home on the night of Thursday, February 8, with an intention of arresting him.
But Matiang’i, in his application, argued that the night raid of his Karen home was a political witch-hunt by President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza government.
However, the former powerful CS in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government appears to have won round one in relation to his arrest.
This was after the High Court on Thursday, February 9, granted Matiang’i anticipatory orders that will protect him from being arrested.
“That pending that mention, and in the interests of justice, and, for the reasons deposed in the affidavit of Fred Okeng’o Matiang’i sworn on 9/2/2023, the applicant be and is hereby admitted to anticipatory bail by way of a personal bond of KSh 200 (two hundred thousand only),” the court said.
Matiang’i who fiercely campaigned against President William Ruto in the 2022 election campaigns claimed that he is to be arrested by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and will be charged with abuse of office.
“True to their words, on the afternoon of the 9th February 2023, my family home in Karen was raided, surrounded, and cordoned off by police officers who were seeking to arrest me,
“The police officers barricaded the entry to my house and only retreated after the media and my Advocates arrived and the story of my impending arrest went viral on social media platforms,” he said.
He further lamented that the current government first withdrew his security before a contingent of police officers raided his home.
However, the government has dismissed Matiang’i’s claims that he was being sought and that the former CS stage-managed the Wednesday night dramatic scene at his home.
