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Kakamega County Senator Cleophas Malala |
Kakamega County Senator broke down in tears while appearing
before the joint senate committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights
and National Security, Defense, and Foreign Relations. The senator denied
claims that he stage-managed his arrest. Malala was arrested on August 18 on
allegation of violating COVID-19 regulations.
The outspoken senator was arrested on the same day Samburu County
Senator Steve Lelegwe and his Bomet counterpart Christopher Langat was
arrested.
The young senator was then ferried to Mumias from Nairobi to
record a statement on the matter. This was before the Senate was scheduled to
vote on the now contentious revenue sharing formula law.Malala stated that
despite his pleas to the police to have his security beefed up, he has been
ignored.
“I am a young father and husband… It is very disheartening
for people to sit in a corner and think they can take my life. I humbly request
this committee and the Inspector General of Police to take note that I have
said time and again my life is in danger. I have written enough letters and
called offices in this Republic but they have not taken any action even to give
me extra security,” stated Malala as he broke down. ‘“Nobody is willing to give me security Mr.
Chair. It is sad for me to walk around the streets of Kakamega and Kenya
knowing that I’m going to die the next day.” The senator told the senate
committee.
Last month the senator wrote to the inspector general of
police Hillary Mutyambai and Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti
stating that there was a special unit of police code-named ‘Bravo Zulu Yankee’
that had been set up to track him down and kill him.
“As a result of those real and credible threats to harm,
injure, eliminate or assassinate me, a Member of Parliament, I now request your
office to take immediate action to enhance the security detail assigned to me
including additional security provided immediately to my family and my
residences in Kakamega and Nairobi,” the senator alleged in the letter.
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