Mumias East MP Peter Salasya is a wanted man.
Police in Kakamega are hunting down the MP for allegedly threatening a judge.
The judge is said to have made a ruling against him in a case where he is accused of not refunding Sh500,000 he borrowed from a Kakamega businessman Robert Lutta.
The MP is said to have confronted and threatened Resident Magistrate Gladys Kiama outside the court on Monday after she ordered him to refund the money.
Magistrate Kiama reported the matter to Kakamega Police Station after which police took it up.
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Sources say the MP switched off his mobile phones and went into hiding after allegedly threatening the judge.
Magistrate Kiama in her ruling dismissed Salasya’s counterclaim against paying the debt as inadequate, implausible, and dissuasive.
He was also ordered to pay the cost of the case that ran for less than two months.
“The respondent (Salasya) first claimed he had personally loaned the petitioner (Lutta) Sh1 million in cash but later changed during the hearing stage and said that he had loaned the money through a proxy,” read the judgment in part.
“The proxy in question, one Bernard Kemba, could not even identify the claimant (Lutta) even after an identification parade was carried out in court claiming that the camera was not clear even though their lawyer was able to identify those appearing on the screen. I therefore find the counterclaim inconsistent.”
Through lawyer Edwin Wafula, Lutta sued the MP on October 23.
He claimed he lent the MP the money but he refused to refund within the two months they had agreed.
