Police have shifted their attention to the father of businessman and NASA ally Jimi Wanjigi and plan to charge him with a gun related offence.
Police have summoned the former Cabinet minister, James Maina Wanjigi, and ordered him to appear in Nyeri court on Monday, March 5 to face charges of failing to secure his weapon.
Wanjigi Senior maintained that he is a licensed gun holder and says he has possessed the weapon for more than 50 years.
“Your attendance is necessary to appear in Chief Magistrate Court at Nyeri to take a plea in a criminal case number 253 of 2018 on a charge of failing to keep safe custody of a firearm as read with Firearms Act,” part of the summon stated.
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The weapon was among those that were seized from Jimi’s house in Muthaiga last year in a police siege and the Wanjigi senior was present when police took it.
The former Cabinet Minister maintained that he had come with the weapon and decided to keep it in the bedroom he spent in his son’s house.
“How can they claim I failed to keep the weapon when they took it from my bedroom? I was present when they took the weapon. This is crazy,” he lamented.
The summons were issued on the day Jimi was supposed to appear before the same court over the same gun charges.
Jimi Wanjigi was served with a similar court order by heavily armed police officers along Wangari Maathai Road on Wednesday.
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In 2017, police laid a siege at the businessman's Muthaiga residence during which they took away five weapons, all licensed, from the premise.
