Passaris wants governors to be arrested with respect
Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris has called for decent apprehension of governors found to have engaged in corruption.
Passaris argued that there was no need of harassing and humiliating governors in public during their arrests by detectives from EACC or DCI. Passaris was also against the incarceration of the county bosses over the same.
"Ruffling up governors and locking them up in cells is not necessary," said Passaris adding that they will, in the end, be accountable for every action they take since they are elected by the people.
The Nairobi Woman Rep was speaking at Citizen TV during on Tuesday.
She further rooted for an alternative ways of probing the county bosses noting that the dramatic arrests seen lately are dehumanising.
"I do not think there is any governor who would fail to show up when summoned to answer to charges because they are representatives of the people," argued the MP.
She further called for a change of laws that govern the utilisation of funds in county governments, adding that the current laws are unfair to county secretaries, who become sacrificial lambs when things go wrong.
"Only county secretaries will end up in jail given our laws. County Secretaries are put in really precarious positions because a governor can easily deny ever signing anything," she noted.
She was responding to the arrest of Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu last week on Thursday.