NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 24 — Former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi has defied orders to present himself to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) terming summons issued against him as defective.
Matiangi was required to appear at DCI headquarters on Friday for questioning over false information he spread alleging a police raid at his Karen home.
His lawyers however said the summons were unsigned hence his decision to defy the orders.
They also said Matiangi has valid court orders shielding him from arrest by the police.
Lawyer Danstan Omari said Friday the agency should follow the due process.
He however, said that in as much as Matiangi was granted an anticipatory bail by the High Court it does not stop security agencies from investigating him.
“He has nothing to hide but the investigations must be done within the law,” he said.
Lawyer Omari said that a proper summon under the National Police Service Act must be signed and witnessed by police officers.
“Show me one where the police have signed similar to mine where there were e three signatures of police officers,” he said.
No signed summon
He went on to say that a summon must be served in person to the person it is targeted for, saying there is no ingle sermon that has been signed by Matiangi or his lawyers.
Omari further said that the agency misled the media and Kenyans by insinuating that the former security boss had defied the authorities.
He went on to claim that the ongoing woes against his client are politically instigated.
“Any narrative to show Dr Matiangi as somebody who is not ready to comply with the police. Is politics and hot air form the DCI,” he said.
He added that his client is ready to appear before any investigative agency provided the law is adhered to.
In the summons circulated Thursday, the agency stated that it is investigating allegations of Publication of False Information contrary to section 23 of the computer Misuse and Cyber Crimes Act 2018 amongst other offences in regard to alleged raid at his home on February 9.
“I have reasons to believe that you, Dr. Fred Matiangi, the former Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Interior and National Co-ordination, is connected to the offence or has information which can assist me in my investigations,” Michael Sang, a Senior Superintendent of Police attached to DCI’s Serious Crime Unit, wrote.
