KETER MAY LOOSE HIS SEAT, Stansard The political future of Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter is in the balance after President Uhuru Kenyatta backed his prosecution after the legislator was captured on video threatening officials over trucks impounded at the Gilgil weighbridge. In the video, Mr Keter claimed State House Comptroller Lawrence Lenayapa had tried to intervene by calling the officials at the weighbridge but Lenayapa and President Kenyatta denied the allegation. If prosecuted and found guilty, Keter would automatically lose his seat under the Constitution. The Presidency fully supports appropriate legal action. The law will take its course. In appearing to intimidate the public officers, Mr Keter makes a number of claims about other public and State officers at State House Nairobi. These claims are untrue, and amount to nothing more than name-dropping, said the President Sunday. Keter first rose to public limelight after his vocal criticism of the award of the Standard Gauge Railway project to a Chinese firm, and has been a thorn in the flesh of the Jubilee administration since then. Sunday, the police, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keriako Tobiko and Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers were set to launch investigations into the alleged incident after the video footage of the first-time MP hurling unprintable insults at officers went viral on social media.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:57:55 +0000
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