Nyali MP Mohammed Ali has revealed that Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho’s elder brother, Abu Joho, is behind a plan to challenge his election in court.
Speaking during a press conference on Tuesday, the former KTN journalist accused Abu of using his influence in the county to threaten his supporters to sign a statement that would be used to petition his win.
“Police Inspectorate arrested a female supporter of mine and held her at the Central Police Station for three hours then later transferred her to the regional station and kept for additional hours.
"They subjected her to such harassment so that she could sign a statement to challenge my election,” he revealed.
The famed "Jicho-Pevu" journalist compared Abu’s influence in Mombasa to that of Pablo Escobar of American TV series Narcos.
“I don't have faith in the system in Mombasa as he (Abu Joho) runs it,” he revealed.
He further elaborated how during the campaign period, Abu had gone to great depths to frustrate him.
"He (Abu) hired drug addicts to throw stones at my rallies and even at one point I was nearly stabbed by the goons,” Ali stated.
Nonetheless, Ali maintained that he has no problem with Hassan Joho, adding that he even attended the Governor's swearing-in ceremony.
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In August, Coast Regional Coordinator Nelson Marwa stated that police officers in Mombasa were hunting Abu for sponsoring chaos that he says have been witnessed in the county.
Marwa claimed that Joho's brother had been planning the fracas using other people's phones to avoid being monitored.
However, he assured that the authorities were tracking him together with the phone numbers allegedly used to plan the chaos.
“He is not using his number. He uses the youth's and pays them Sh1,000. They walk around with tinted cars changing them 10 times daily,” Marwa claimed.
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