Youth's Lawyer write to police demanding arrest of Gem MP over assault.

 Maurice Ochieng Oduor popularly known as Don Pablo{in Black Half Jacket} address the press in Kisumu today after his lawyer has written a letter requesting the police to arrest Gem Member of Parliament for allegedly assaulting him on June 4 this year-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

By Dickson Odhiambo  

July 17, 2019.

Youth's Lawyer write to police demanding arrest of Gem MP over assault.

A KISUMU BASED Youth who claims that Gem Member of Parliament Elisha Odhiambo assaulted him nearly one and half months ago now want the Police to arrest and charge the legislator.

Through his Lawyer Jared Sala of Sala and Mudany Company Advocates, Maurice Ochieng Oduor popularly known as Don Pablo has written to the officer Commanding Police Station {OCS} at Kisumu Central Police Station demanding the police to arrest the legislator whom he claim assaulted him on June 4, this year at his place of work behind the Awori House in Kisumu.

In the letter dated today July 17, 2019, the complainant said since he reported the case at Kisumu Central Police station on June 4 this year, police has taken no action against the Member of Parliament for Gem over the matter.

“Our client made a report of assault against the said Elisha Ochieng Odhiambo at your police station on June 4 2019 vide OB Number 70/04/06/2019.Since then, one and half months down the line, no action has been taken to arrest the said offender and bring him to book,” part of the letter reads.

The letter further reads: “This is to kindly request your office to ensure the arrest as per the report, and hand him over to the nearest court of law forthwith, so as to enable the issue take its lawful and necessary course.” 

The letter has been copied to Kisumu County Police Commander, County Criminal Investigating Officer, District Criminal Investigating Officer{DCIO}, Independent Policing Oversight Authority{IPOA} and Commission on Administration of Justice.

When contacted to comment on the matter, Kisumu County Police Commander Benson Mawewo was not available in the office by the time the journalists visited to seek his comment.

On June 4 this year, a Kisumu Based Youth accused Gem Constituency Member of Parliament Elisha Odhiambo of assaulting him within his place of work following a post he made on social media indicating that  EACC had summoned him over alleged graft in National Government Constituency  Development Funds.

Maurice Ochieng Oduor popularly known as Don Pablo claimed that he saw the Member of Parliament entering EACC Western Kenya regional offices in Kisumu and posted that he had been summoned by the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission in his face book account.

Addressing the press at Kisumu Central Police Station then where he went and recorded a statement with the police in regard to the incident Oduor said some of the MP’s allies begun to call him via his cellphone asking him why he had posted such like a thing on social media.

He claimed most of those people who had called him threatened while asking why he did such like a thing.

He however said he deleted the post after the MP had demanded that he delete it, adding that even after deleting it the lawmaker came and attacked him at his place of work.

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