Suna East MP Junet Mohamed (right) and Senator James Orengo (centre) board a police vehicle after the arrest of Mohamed at Nation Centre on June 14, 2016. [Photo| Nation]
Police are looking for Suna East Member of Parliament Junet Mohamed.This is after the ODM legislator skipped several court summons over a case that he was charged in July.The Directorate of Criminal Investigation has sought more time to look for Junet with police investigators promising senior Principal Magistrate Susan Ndegwa that they will arrest him for skipping court dates. Nation reports Homa Bay Director of Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Joseph Tuksho through criminal investigation officer Patrick Kibowen told Magistrate Ndegwa that he was not aware that the court had issued warrant of arrest to Mr Junet.“Mr Tuksho has not been aware that the court issued warrant of arrest to Suna East MP Junet Mohammed,” Kibowen said as quoted by the daily. “We ask for more time to enable us arrest Mr Junet,” Kibowen added.Junet was in July this year, charged with ethnic contempt for remarks he made during an ODM youth meeting in Homa Bay town.The NASA MP was accused of directing Mombasa governor Hassan Joho to prepare grounds in Mombasa where the National Super Alliance would conduct swearing-in of Nasa presidential candidate Raila Odinga so as become president of certain parts of the country except Central region.He was released on bail and ordered to appear in court on October 24.The prosecutors however claimed he failed to show up.The case will be mentioned on January 11, 2018.