An alleged boyfriend to slain NITA employee June Jerop has moved to the high court seeking to stop his prosecution.
Jesse Wafula Wakukha has filed an application under certificate of urgency at the Milimani Constitutional and Human Rights Division.
Through his lawyer John Swaka, Wafula who is among three people in police custody in connection with the murder of Jerop, wants the court to issue that order pending before he is charged.
He wants the court to vacate orders issued on April 5/2023 and release him from any further incarceration pending the hearing and determination of this application.
“My client wants the court to issue temporary orders restraining Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Inspector General of Police, SCCIO Makadara and DCIO officers at Makadara from arresting, arraigning in court and charging him pending the hearing and determination of this petition, “added Swaka.
He also wants the prosecution to be stopped from harassing, intimidating, persecuting, arbitrarily arresting or detaining him pending the hearing and determination of this suit.
Wafula also wants the court to suspend his criminal charges pending the hearing of the petition.
He says on the day he is said to have traveled to Bungoma, he went there to conduct his business.
Wafula who is an ICT expert says he was arrested on March 23 where he was accused of murder of June Jerop Kangogo.
He says that he was contacted by Jerop on March 17/2023 and March 18, 2023 but they did not manage to talk. Both times the deceased tried to contact him; he did not manage to answer.
“I was informed of Jerop’s death by police officers and before I could comprehend that she is no more, I was arrested, “he added.
He says that the police have not adduced any evidence linking him with that death and he insists that he was in Bungoma.
Wafula says that he is being detained while he is innocent, adding that his right to movement is being violated.
June Jerop Kangogo was until her death an accountant at the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA).
She was in charge of the vote account, a powerful section in the accounts department.
