Kajiado North MP Onesmus Ngogoyo now says that the country is slowly returning to the dark days where the criminal justice system would be used to settle political scores.
Speaking outside the DCI Headquarters along Kiambu Road on Monday, December 16, MP Ngogoyo said that “someone” was using the criminal justice system to frustrate MPs allied to former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
“It is sad that one would want to use the justice system to make sure that MPs who believe in Rigathi Gachagua are summoned to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). If this is a tactic to instill fear, I am sorry I will not yield to such tactics,” Ngogoyo told TV47 Senior Reporter Moige William.
DCI ‘summoning’
The legislator said that he received a summon by the DCI via WhatsApp on Sunday, December 15 evening, to appear before the agency regarding an alleged offence of cyber harassment contrary to section 27 (1) of the computer misuse and cyber crimes act while speaking in Nyeri County.
“I got a WhatsApp message summoning me to the DCI, on reaching here, they told me that I should not be here and that the matter has been pushed to a later date. I would want to know what is it I have done wrong.”
Controversial mass livestock vaccination
Ngogoyo suspects that his sentiments on the controversial mass livestock vaccination exercise that the government is planning to undertake in January 2025 is the reason for his tribulations.
“I am part of government, being in the legislature. We have said no to the vaccines that the president wants to introduce. I have said ‘no’, I repeat again ‘no’. Mr President, forced mass vaccination of livestock wants to undermine livestock in this country,” he added.
Ngogoyo could not fathom why the Kenya Kwanza Administration would want want to force vaccines on Kenyans. “People buy vaccines on their own, why do you want to force. From the region where we come from, we are saying we will not allow the issue of vaccination of livestock which is forced under a fishy programme.”
Gov’t denies ulterior motives
Despite numerous allegations from different quarters, the government has dispelled claims that the planned national vaccination initiative has ulterior motives.
Dr. Christopher Wanga, director policy and research at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, insists all vaccines used globally have been tried and tested and therefore no cause for alarm.
Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary (CS) Dr Andrew Karanja has allayed fears that the vaccines that will be used have been procured from abroad, insisting that they have been produced locally by the Kenya Veterinary Vaccines Production Institute (KEVEVAPI).
