Nairobi Senator, Johnson Sakaja has been forced to resign from the Senate Covid-19 Senate committee after flouting Covid-19 guidelines placed by the ministry of health.
While speaking to the press at Nairobi Kilimani Police Station, the youthful Senator lamented that he broke the Covid-19 rules on Friday when the curfew hours found him outside his house.
“I take full responsibility for having flouted Covid-19 rules on Friday. I was outside my home after 9 pm and that is against the [Covid-19] rules. It is regrettable but all of us make mistakes.” he regrettably said.
Sakaja said he was arrested and was not charged nor booked upon his arrest but was told by the officers to leave. The lawmaker will appear in before the court on Tuesday to answer to charges of breaking the Covid-19 guidelines place by the Ministry of Health.
The Senator was holed up at the home of a senior civil servant in Karen to evade arrest on Saturday night.
After failing to show up at Kilimani Police Station, the police tried to call him but his phone was off. Detectives then visited his house where they found his car parked and his mobile phone in the house.
Then, the officers suspected the Senator had gone into a hideout.
The officers then camped at his house and insisted that he had to record a statement at Kilimani Police Station as required by the law.
Sakaja was arrested at a bar after a confrontation with the authority who had been called following complaints that there were revelers inside the club past curfew hours.
The Senator was also accused of inciting some of those present to defy the police orders to vacate the premises. It also alleged that the Senator also threatened to have all the police officers at Kilimani transferred within 24 hours.
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Before his resignation, ironically Sakaja chaired the Senate ad hoc committee on Covid-19 that gathered views on the Pandemic Response and Management Bill, 2020.
The committee is responsible for the oversight actions and measures taken by both the National and County governments in addressing the spread and effects of the pandemic in the country.
