Court orders state to produce former South C MCA

The High Court has ordered the Attorney General, the Inspector General of Police and the DPP to produce Nairobi City County Johnsons Sakaja's key liaison person Osman Khalif Abdi in court following his alleged abduction on November 10.

Justice Chacha Mwita said the two should produce the former South C MCA Osman in Milimani or any other court on 17 November.

If not, they should "show cause why the said Osman should not be released"

The orders followed after his wife Yasmin Osman filed an application in court.

Through Advocate Eric Theuri, Yasmin told the court that her husband was kidnapped on November 10 at about 4 pm outside a shopping mall.

She said his whereabouts remain unknown to date even after reporting the incident at the Pangani police station.

"We were just coming out of Sarit when we met about six unidentified armed people who claimed to have been looking for Osman," reads the document in part.

Yasmin proceeds to state that the people grabbed her husband and took off in a silver motor vehicle.

Yasmin says she tried to resist the said abduction process but she was met with violence from the abductors.

"I proceeded to report the incidents of assault and abduction at Parkland police station but there has been no response," she said.

She argues that the lack of interest from the police officers infer that they are aware of her husband's whereabouts.

"I am apprehensive that the life of my husband is in grave danger," she says.

Attempts to request CCTV footage from the mall were unsuccessful.

"They told me I had to furnish them with a letter from the police officers before they could release the footage to me," she says.

Mwita directed the pleadings filed in court to be served immediately upon the AG, DPP, Inspector General of Police, Safaricom and the Sarit Centre shopping Mall.