MP was one of the 11 MPs who were detained for hours by the
Kenyan police after they made a secret weekend visit to Somalia in March of
2020
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| Hon. Hassan Kullow Maalim |
Member of the National Assembly for Banisa Constituency Hon.
Hassan Kullow Maalim has so far failed to deny any involvement or even misusing
officers from the Special Crimes Unit (SCU) in the abduction and disappearance of
two bloggers. The two bloggers, Jack Okinyi (Business Illustrated) and Milton
Were (Kenya Today) have since been released after undergoing a harrowing
36-hour experience in police custody.
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| Jack Okinyi |
The office of the Director of Public Prosecution declined to
be used and failed to approve a charge sheet to pave way for the two to be
charged with the offence of publishing false information. The Banisa MP is reportedly a director in
Tasha Holdings Limited, his partner is one Abdisirat Khalif Ali.
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| Charge sheet |
The MP was one of the 11 MPs who were
detained by the Kenyan police for hours after they made a secret weekend visit
to Somalia in March of 2020. They were questioned after police laid a trap
as they jetted back into Wilson Airport in Nairobi. In Somalia, they reportedly
met the Somali National Intelligence officials over a subject or subjects that
are unclear. The MP and his colleagues travelled without the permission of the
Foreign Affairs ministry or National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi.
Jack Okinyi was the first to be arrested from Upper Hill and
driven to Mlolongo after being beaten up and wrapped in a trash paper, in an
attempt to suffocate him, before the police tracked Milton Were and abducted
him. They were then taken around the city before they were booked at the
Capitol Hill police station.
The directors are said to have been angered by an expose made
by the two bloggers to the effect that the Deputy Director supply chain
management at the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) Mrs Sadia Haji Adam
Khalifa had allegedly used her office to award road projects to Tasha Holdings Limited which had no capacity to carry
out the works to the conclusion. They added that the multi-million shillings roads
projects had since stalled as the firm lacks experience in doing such works.
The blog wrote that the money already paid cannot be
accounted for as they ‘squandered 95% of funds allocated and leaving much work
not completed as per the agreement by the KURA’
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