Residents of Sirisia Constituency in Bungoma County have taken to the streets to protest the imprisonment of their MP, John Waluke.
Irate residents accused the government of witch-hunting Waluke because of his political affiliation on Wednesday morning.
“The new government should not harass our MP.” This government received 70% of the vote in Sirisia. Our MP is not a thief; he was a businessman, and the investigation is a witch hunt.”
Residents staged protests and blocked the Lwakhakha-Sirisia Road with stones.
The High Court of Kenya upheld Waluke’s 67-year jail term on October 6 following the unsuccessful appeal after the same sentence was meted against him by the Milimani Anti-Corruption Magistrate Court.
The High Court ordered Waluke to pay his Ksh 1 billion fine or surrender to prison to serve his jail term.
True to the Court’s directives, on October 7, he surrendered to the Police at Milimani Law Courts.
