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. Keter stormed the Gilgil weighbridge station on Saturday night accompanied by nominated MP Sunjeev Kaur Birdi said to be linked to the heavy trucks that were impounded because the driver had no special clearance certificates from the Kenya National Highways Authority (KenHa). In the video, Keter warns the officers to release the trucks and is overhead questioning why they refused to pick calls from State House Comptroller Lawrence Lenayapa, Rift Valley Regional Commissioner Osman Warfa, National Assembly National Security Committee Chairman Asman Kamama and an unnamed OCPD, whom he alleged were trying to sort out the matter. Above law Keter is heard bragging that MPs make laws and can break them at will. Tell me who is the owner of that company... Are they Ugandans subcontracting? In whose interest? We are the ones who legislate. We make laws for this country. No way. Okay, listen. We will reverse the law, but we have to sack the people and we have to reverse the law, Keter shouts. He goes ahead: It is so mad. Imagine State House Comptroller... that is the President communicating, he is calling, no one is picking. I called no one responds. I am a Member of Parliament. Chairman of security committee in Kenya, Kamama calls, no one picks. We are about 10 Members of Parliament. You are waiting to hear from who? From God? Jesus Christ to call you? Go away.....We are the ones who make the law. When we want to break it we break it when we want. When the President calls, you have to respect. Whether you are... I dont care. State House Comptroller calls then you say you cant release the lorries? The person who runs the contract will lose it. This is the Hon Keter. I fight big wars. I dont fight small wars. You can even call the media and cover here. I will tell them the story. Tell your boss he is stupid. Even tomorrow there will be no job. Is this Kenya or Uganda... Is this France? Go away. I have to see the President himself. Leave here tomorrow. Handcuff me, Keter shouts.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:16:06 +0000
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