MPs to police: Expedite search for missing Wajir MCA

The Star Kenya

MPs from Northern Kenya have asked the police to widen the scope of the investigation and expedite the search for missing Wajir Member of County Assembly Yussuf Hussein. https://shorturl.at/GunZ6

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00:00This ingratious abduction constitutes a grave violation of the fundamental rights enshrined

00:05in our Constitution.

00:06In particular, Article 29 guarantees every citizen the right to freedom and security,

00:12including protection from arbitrary detention.

00:15This blatant disregard of constitutional protection strikes at the very core of our democratic

00:23society.

00:24Such violations cannot and will not be tolerated.

00:27The perpetrators of such acts must be brought to justice.

00:35Acts of kidnapping, arbitrary arrest, and illegal confinement are not merely personal

00:42affronts.

00:43They are crimes against the state and a direct threat to the rule of law, which forms the

00:48foundation of our democracy, and any action that undermines it erodes the fabric of our

00:54society.

00:55No individual, regardless of their status or power, is above the law.

01:00We stand united in resisting any attempt to weaken the legal framework that protects our

01:07freedom.

01:08Criminal responsibility to an individual, where an individual is suspected, that individual

01:13must be subjected to the rule of law and subjected to the due process of law.

01:18That is the only way we can all be accountable to the rule of law and cherish our democracy.

01:24All we are asking for is the rule of law.

01:26There are criminals everywhere.

01:29We have criminals in northern Kenya, bidet drug dealers, sympathizers of Al-Shabaab.

01:37All kinds of criminals are there.

01:40But an MCA, a leader, who has been abducted for weeks, cannot be missing.

01:49If he's a criminal and there is sufficient evidence to pin him down, we request the government

01:56to bring him to the courts of law so that he can face justice.

02:01But he can't be missing a leader.

02:02If he's missing tomorrow, I'll be missing.

02:05I'm equally a leader.

02:07So we want the rule of law and the criminal justice system to be functional, to convince

02:14all Kenyans that we have a reliable, dependable justice system.

02:19The accountable use of the MCA for Dela has been missing for the last five days.

02:24Concessionary, I think, if at all, someone has been held by the security apparatus, it's

02:29supposed to be introduced in court within 24 hours.

02:35And therefore we want to appeal to anybody, all the security apparatus, to reduce use

02:40of the court.

02:43If he's a criminal, the court will take his cause.

02:48If, and I say again if, accountable use has not been held by any of the security apparatus,

02:55then it is the responsibility of the government to seek and look for use of, as every Kenyan

03:01has a right and properties are to be protected, the people and their properties are to be

03:06protected.

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