Salasya denies threatening magistrate, says case is political witch-hunt

Peter Salasya celebrates after he won Mumias East parliamentary seat, August 2022. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Mumias East MP Peter Salasya has told the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) that he did not threaten a magistrate who presided over a case in which he was a party in Kakamega county.

Salasya who addressed Journalists at Parliament Buildings in Nairobi Wednesday said that at the time he was said to have threatened the magistrate he was in Nairobi attending a parliamentary committee meeting and termed the allegations political.