Nandi Senator Samson Kiprotich Cherargei has hit out on the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) over the now familiar Fridays arrests of individuals implicated in corruption.
The vocal Jubilee Senator is now terming the arrests popularly referred to as Friday 'kamata kamata' as mere showbiz and Public Relations (PR) exercise by the office of the DPP and DCI.
"Arresting people on Friday is just a way of those offices to be seen to be working," Cherargei told the press in Eldoret town on Monday.
He said the DPP and DCI have been arresting graft suspects without a proper structure and legislative framework.
“They are just arresting people, locking them behind bars over the weekend and arraigning them in court over politically motivated charges. That is not the way to run this country, in fact, you are punishing people before they go to the full throne of prosecution,” noted the Senator who chairs the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee in the Senate.
He said the committee will soon be discussing the ways to put in place a proper legislative framework that will guide investigations, arrest and prosecution of suspects linked to corruption.
Cherargei has been among some of the North Rift politicians who have questioned the manner in which recent war on corruption is being handled.
He recently claimed that the fight is being used to target the Kalenjin community in an attempt to scuttle Deputy President Wiliam Ruto's 2022 presidential bid.
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