By Cyrus Ombati
Turkana South MP Josephat Nanok and his Turkana Central counterpart, Ekwee Ethuro are expected in court on Monday to face charges of incitement.
Whereas Ethuro recorded a statement and was set free on a police bond, Nanok spent the third night at the Kileleshwa police station after he allegedly refused to co-operate with the investigators by refusing to record and sign a statement.
Detectives handling the case said they expect to interrogate Labour minister John Munyes on Monday over statements they made last Thursday at Parliament Buildings.
“The minister said he will come on Monday for statement recording before we know the way forward but the other two are appearing in court probably tomorrow (Monday),” said a senior officer aware of the case.
Nanok was arrested on Friday night in connection with utterances he made over the slaying of 42 police officers in Baragoi, Samburu county, last week.
Ethuro presented himself at the CID headquarters on Saturday evening and recorded a statement.
Police had summoned the two MPs alongside Munyes over statements they made last Thursday at Parliament Buildings.
Munyes said the police should have sought their help to convince the rustlers to return the animals.
Nanok warned that President Kibaki risked being hauled off to the International Criminal Court for authorising the deployment of Kenya Defence Forces in the Suguta Valley to go after the bandits.
The Forestry assistant minister protested his innocence, saying he was a political prisoner at the Kileleshwa police station saying police had tried to force him to sign that he did not author.
On Saturday morning, he was driven to the CID headquarters on Kiambu road, where he was interrogated for three hours before he was taken back to Kileleshwa police station.
Interrogating survivors
Meanwhile, two senior police officers have been sent to Suguta to investigate how their colleagues were killed in the bungled operation.
The officers led by head of police reforms at police headquarters Jonathan Koskei and Nairobi Area CID boss Nicholas Kamwende spent their first day in Suguta interrogating survivors of the attack.
Officials aware of their mission there say they want to understand where things went wrong before they make recommendations on the way forward.
Reports say junior officers were not fully briefed on their mission at the valley and what they expected from their enemies as the case should be.
The deployment of the senior officers was done following last Saturday’s incident in which more than 40 police officers were killed.
The officers were under pressure to recover animals that had earlier on been stolen from Samburu when they were attacked few kilometers away from targeted manyattas.
