Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has now moved to court to stop investigations into his personal bank accounts.
Kidero, who is seeking re-election in the August General Election filed the case on Thursday to block the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) from probing the accounts for the duration he was Mumias Sugar boss.
In the case filed under urgency, he also wants the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) stopped from the probe until the case is heard and determined.
Through lawyer Tom Ojienda, the Governor argues that the case "is nothing but intimidation, political harassment using government agencies to humiliate and degrade him."
“Unless the court intervenes and stops the evidently illegal scrutiny of the applicant’s bank accounts, he will continue to suffer a violation of his constitutional rights," states the lawyer.
He further argues that the probe will be in contravention of another order issued by the court where CMA and DPP are parties.
The Governor has severally been accused of causing the collapse of the sugar company with the allegations forming a basis of the ongoing campaigns.
In 2016, Governor Kidero and his wife, Susan Mboya, moved the High Court to stop the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) from probing their personal accounts.
The court granted the orders which blocked the Commission from investigating the couple's seven bank accounts which were allegedly used to transfer public funds.
According to the anti-graft body, the two had colluded with some officials at the county government to move funds to those accounts.
EACC had obtained search warrants for the accounts which the County boss objected to claiming that the Commission was acting in bad faith.
