Parliament through Speaker Moses Wetangula has ordered the summoning of the Inspector General of police Douglas Kanja following the dumping of garbage outside Kenya Power offices.
In his orders, Wetangula has called on Parliamentary Committee Chairperson Gabriel Koshal Tongoyo to take on the police boss so as to answer the recent events which he termed ‘criminality and abuse of the law.’
According to Wetangula, the events should be addressed as ignoring it will lead to the rise of goons who will act outside the law thus corroding the country.
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“Ole Tongoyo, we shall not allow this country to be reduced to a wild-waste behaviour where you disagree with somebody and you send goons and hooligans to go and sort out your mess. That is not Kenya, and you must stop it. I direct you to summon the IG to find out why no action has been taken against this publicized criminal behaviour by the City Government of Nairobi.
There are criminal offences committed under the Environmental Law, Health Act, Pinal Code and several other acts of Parliament.” he said
In his response, Tongonyo confirmed that the police IG will face the committee next week Thursday.
“I am well guided and we are going to have the IG summoned and appear before the Committee next week on Thursday.” he said
The summon follows complains raised by Majority and Monority leaders Kimani Ichung’wa and Junet Mohamed who termed the incident an act of intimadation.
“KPLC is a very important institution in our country and is a publicly listed company that is also oversight in this House. Many people have defaulted in paying their bills, and it is not only Nairobi County, if you can’t afford to pay your bills, you negotiate with the person you owe money. You don’t use other means to intimidate them to let go of the debt. I condemn that matter because it is an uncouth, primitive and irresponsible way of dealing with an issue.
The county has been trying to clean the City but this act is unacceptable. The governor must apologize to Kenya Power and the residents of Nairobi. What will stop him from dumping waste outside my house if I default on payment of water bills?” said Junet
“What we have seen around Stima Plaza is a criminal act. Where are the police that should be ensuring that there is law and order everywhere? The IG must take decisive action and it must begin with the drivers who drove those trucks there. From drivers to the people who instructed them, up to the governor.
Under the EACC Act and NEMA Act, these are not only criminal acts but acts that go beyond integrity and ethics. They are touching on economic crimes because you are dumping garbage deliberately on a road, you will expend public resources to dump and later clean up. It is an abuse of public funds. You can imagine if such governors had policemen on their command, they would be trampling on anyone! Ensure action is taken against those people who dumped garbage outside Stima Plaza.” said Kimani Ichung’wa
