Amani National Congress party leader Musalia Mudavadi has demanded the Director of Criminal Investigations to arrest COTU boss Francis Atwoli for threatening his life.
Mudavadi through lawyer Nick Biket requested the DCI to compel the secretary-general of COTU to reveal what he knows about the plans to harm him.
In the letter dated Tuesday February 22, the lawyer says Mudavadi is fearing for his life following Atwoli’s “threatening remarks”.
According to Mudavadi’s lawyer the vibrant unionist has variously been issuing threats aimed at his client and that he must account for them this time round.
Among the statements the Kenya Kwanza alliance leader feels amounts to threat on his life include the following.
“Mimi nawaambia mchana and I don’t want to curse you kwa ajili nilimpa kiti nikasema yeye ataongoza sisi kama jamii yetu,” the lawyer quotes Atwoli as saying. He adds, “Lakini ile kitu nataka kumwambia anaenda kuitwa; kama hawachi hiyo mtindo hivi karibuni utafungua TV yako unaona breaking news, mama yake amemuita; mnasikia hiyo maneno?” The lawyer said the words in reference to his client were injurious and life-threatening:
According to Mudavadi’s lawyers, the statements by the COTU boss dictate that himself and a clique of individuals are privy to information that puts the life of our client at risk.
“Ours is to demand, which we hereby do, that one Francis Atwoli, be summoned and/or arrested and charged for these life-threatening statements,” Mudavadi said in the letter.
The ANC leader and the COTU boss have been reading from different political script ever since the latter jumped ship and began working with the DP Ruto.
Without doubt, the political friction between the two will ultimately end up in the courts of law if a truce is not found.
