Nairobi, Kenya - Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission chairperson Mumo Matemu says his life is in danger after a van rammed into his official car twice in Nairobi.
Matemu was however not in the car when it was hit along Chiromo Road on Friday night.
His security personnel had dropped him home in Kileleshwa area and were driving back when a van that had been trailing them rammed into the car twice.
The occupants of the van tried to escape from the scene but were chased and intercepted along Ojijo Road near Museum Hills.
Police say the occupants escaped and abandoned the van on the road before it was towed to Parklands police station.
Nairobi traffic commander Edward Mwamburi said they are yet to get the occupants and that no one was injured in the accident.
“It was a non-injury accident involving EACC staff and the unknown occupants of the other car. We are investigating the incident,” said Mwamburi.
The car that was involved in the accident after dropping Matemu home belongs to the commission CEO Halakhe Waqo.
Matemu’s car is in a garage for service. He was allocated Waqo’s car in the meantime, officials said.
He told his friends and relatives on Sunday that the accident was suspicious and demanded that the truth be known.
“He is asking why the occupants ran away after they had hit his car twice. He feels threatened and thinks it is all linked to his work,” said a relative who asked not to be named.
The van was however not at Parklands on Sunday and officers there said the case had been taken over by their superiors.
The incident comes ahead of Tuesday’s deciding moment in which his fate and his deputy Irene Keino’s fate would be known over a petition for their removal.
Reports say some members of Justice and Legal Affairs Committee met in State House on Wednesday to plot for the ouster of the two.
The meeting came after an earlier one where the draft report recommending the dismissal of the petition by lawyer Geoffrey Oriaro was to be adopted but was deliberately scuttled by some MPs.
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Oriaro petitioned the House to kick-start the process of removing the two from office on grounds that they had compromised the war on graft.
Oriaro wants the House to recommend to the President to appoint a tribunal to investigate the conduct of the two commissioners, claiming they have violated the constitution, the EACC Act, Anti-Corruption Act and the Penal Code.
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