The application which is filed under a certificate of urgency is seeking the court’s intervention to issue an order to the Inspector General of Police, Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Director of Public Prosecution to produce the abductees in court.
Accompanied by his two lawyers Felix Keaton and Philip Langat at a press conference in Milimani law courts, they are seeking the production in court of Gideon Kibet aka Kibet Bull, Ronny Kiplagat, Steve Kavingo Mbisi, Billy Mwangi, Peter Muteti, Bernard Kavuli and Kelvin Muthoni.
Alternatively, he wants the immediate release of the seven abductees from detention.
The senator said that Kibet was the recent abductee on December 24, 2024, while leaving his office.
Omtata said that these growing cases of abduction represent an alarming trend of enforced disappearance of youths opposing the government in the country which is against the law,
“The increasing cases of abduction is alarming and it is against the rights and fundamental freedoms enriched by the constitution, 2010,” he said.
He said that Bull visited his office to introduce himself with the aim of exploring how to join his team since he support what he does before his scheduled travel on Friday, December 27, 2024, to Israel to join Tel Aviv University.
Kibet informed him that he is a strong supporter of his work and he had travelled to Nairobi from Nakuru that morning and told him that he would be staying at his brother’s place in Kikuyu before leaving the country.
As soon as he arrived at his office, Omtata’s security team informed him that they monitored a white Subaru Forester vehicle registration number KCG 089A which was parked opposite his office and it was mounted with suspected FlexiSpy communication gadgets on its roof which are used to intercept phone communication.
The security team noted that the vehicle had four occupants, three men and a lady who never disembark for the entire time it was there and its engine kept running all through.
It left there shortly after Kibet had left.
The senator said that the registration details of the said Subaru were fake,
“The details that popped from NTSA indicated that the vehicle was a white Station Wagon belonging to Catherine Kalaju,” he said.
The senator believes that the white Subaru Forester mounted with suspected Flexispy communication gadgets on its roof belongs to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations DCI which owns similar vehicles and that it was trailing Kibet.
He demands Mohammed Ibrahim Amin the Director of Criminal Investigations, and Douglas Kanja the Inspector General of police service to come clean on abduction cases and unconditionally release Kibet immediately,
“I also demand they take similar action to the abduction of the other six,” Omtata added.
Otherwise, the two should resign from office if they genuinely don’t know who is conducting the abductions and disappearance of the youths since it is a clear indication of their incompetency to hold their offices,
“Let them resign because they have miserably failed in their mandates to protect Kenyans from enforced disappearance which are gross violation of the rule of law and have no place in Kenya today,” the senator said.
Omtata further indicated that the acts of enforced disappearance are criminal acts under international law where Kenya has signed the International Convention of the Protection of all Persons against enforced disappearance.