Meru Senator Mithika Linturi.[Photo/citizentv]
Meru Senator Mithika Linturi has moved to court seeking orders to bar DPP, EACC and police from investigating or arresting him over his alleged fake degree.
Linturi filed a suit at the High Court saying he’s afraid of being arrested and prosecuted unlawfully.
According to Linturi, the police and the Director of Public Prosecution are planning to institute a criminal case against him.
He said the authorities are basing their case on an incomplete and scanty investigations.
The University of Nairobi has already de-registered and dis-continued him from the university and as a result he did not graduate in December.
In a certificate of urgency filed this morning at the Milimani law court, Linturi says that he’s afraid that he’ll lose four academic years and a chance of pursuing post graduate studies.
“I will not now be able to pursue higher academic qualification or undertake courses at the Kenya School of Law in order to be enrolled as an Advocate of the High court,”reads the petition.
“There’s a threat and likelihood that I may be charged with criminal offences based on incomplete and scanty investigation and which the DPP and the EACC are likely to ignore as exculpatory,” says Linturi through his lawyer James Orengo.