The battle between Businessman Jimmy Wanjigi and Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i is over.
This came after the High Court terminated CS Matiang’is request to have t Businessman’s Wanjigi certificate to have firearms revoked.
According to High Court Justice Judge John Mativo, the decision in the letter dated January 30, last year, revoking Wanjigi’s licence was illegal.
He further added saying that the businessman had demonstrated sufficient grounds to warrant the court to grant him judicial review reliefs sought.
The court further noted that Matiang’i had made public utterances prior and after the revocation of the Wanjigi’s certificate.
Inn addition the court said that the utterances were directed at persons in the opposition or associated with the opposition. “The utterances leave any reasonable observer with no doubt that he, the CS, was openly biased against the class of persons,” the court said.
Wanjigi and Matiang’i crossed paths in 2018 March after police stormed his car blocking his way at Museum Hill after he was accused of importing prohibited firearms and skipping court summons.
He was later charged with the offence. Chief Magistrate Wendy Kagendo, however, declined to issue a warrant of arrest for Wanjigi whose tribulations began when he stood his ground in support for Raila Odinga-led National Super Alliance (NASA) party.
Wanjigi has previously complained that he was being harassed by the Government due to his association with Opposition leader Raila Odinga.
Police raided his home in Muthaiga, Nairobi in October after guns and bullets were seized at a house in Malindi said to be his.
During the siege, the officers sought to arrest him over the discovery and seizure of five rifles and 93 bullets in a villa in Malindi.