Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo has said that mistreating  Former CS Fred Matiang'i is lowering the standings of the ministry of interior.

Speaking outside the Directorate of Criminal Investigations office on Tuesday, Amollo said that the government is demonstrating the country is not in a stable democracy. 

"Let the government know that when you think you are mistreating Matiang'i as a person, you are actually not mistreating him instead you are lowering the standings of the office he held and the standing of our country even in the eyes of foreigners," he said. 

"You are therefore demonstrating to everyone that we are not a stable democracy, we are going towards a 'banana'republic and that will come to bite the very people who are trying to meet that on Matiang'i."

His sentiments come after the former interior CS spent hours at the DCI offices to be grilled over an alleged police raid at his Karen home on the night of February 8 which police insist never happened. 

Police said they found Matiang'i answerable to two charges relating to the alleged raid.

The first charge is a conspiracy to commit a felony contrary to Section 317 of the Penal Code and publication of false information contrary to Section 23 of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act.

"I caution you that you are not obliged to say anything unless you wish to do so but whatever you say, shall be taken down in writing and might be given as evidence in court," Chief Inspector Maurice Shiraho told the former CS.

The former CS was accompanied by a bevvy of lawyers led by Danstan Omari.

Omari said after the grilling that the date for arraignment was not disclosed by the officers.  

"They said they are not taking waziri (Minister) to court today. So what then remains is that it is a date they will present the charge sheet before the court and we shall present Waziri before that court," he said. By PERPETUA ETYANG, The Star