President Uhuru Kenyatta's name has cropped up in the arrest of Nandi Governor Stephen Sang over allegations of malicious destruction of a tea estate in his county.
Sang was arrested by Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives on Monday afternoon and whisked away to an undisclosed police station in Kisumu County.
The county boss was nabbed when he arrived at Kapsabet Police Station to record a statement after reports emerged he was a wanted man over the destruction of tea bushes at Kibwari tea farm.
Moments before he was apprehended, Sang told journalists that the tea estate, which reportedly belongs to former powerful Cabinet Minister Henry Kosgey, sits on grabbed land.
Commenting on the issue, outspoken lawyer Miguna Miguna has faulted Sang's arrest and accused President Uhuru of allegedly protecting Kosgey, who according to him, had obviously grabbed the land in question.
"Let the alleged "owner" of the tea estate prove ownership, which he cannot because he had grabbed public land and is now being protected by tyrant Uhuru Kenyatta and armed goons the same way they protects all organized gangsters as his zombies clap like nincompoops. Period!" he tweeted on Tuesday.
Miguna defended Governor's action to storm into the farm with a power saw and cutting down tea bushes, saying it was his 'valid legal right' to repossess the land.
"Anyone who fraudulently takes ownership of property that does not belong to him has no valid legal claim to that property because ownership that vests through fraud is a nullity. Nandi Governor Stephen Sang had a valid legal right to restore Nandi County land that had been stolen," he insisted.
Sang is expected to be arraigned in court on Tuesday.