Kisii County Commissioner Chege Mwangi has warned people who are inciting some traders and threatening them in the region to join in protests that they would be arrested.
Speaking to the press in his office, Mwangi said no one else apart from the police department is allowed to enforce a court order and therefore said those threatening others are contravening the law.
He was responding to attack threats raised by matatu operators that some people were threatening to attack them if they will not heed to demonstration calls over levy increment imposed by county government.
“I want to tell those individuals who are threatening other traders over levy issues to mind their words because we will arrest them and be arraigned in court,” he warned.
On Monday at Gusii Stadium during launch of County flag, the Matatu Welfare Association chairperson David Nyamweya, said they were being compelled to join protests over the Kisii County Finance Act 2014.
Nyamweya asked security to be beefed up at the stage after a group of traders told them they would attack them if they betrayed them by not demonstrating.
Kisii county governor James Ongwae has since told the traders to cooperate and continue paying the initial charges pending a case in court.
The business people had filed a case in court challenging the manner in which the county government enacted the Finance Act that they claimed doubled tax from the initial one.
The court halted the implementation of the new charges till the case filed by the businesspersons has been heard and determined.