A storm has erupted over allegations of blatant double standards in the enforcement of the law after prominent lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi claimed that police were instructed by powerful figures within the Office of the President not to arrest Nairobi MCA Robert Alai after he pulled a gun on Embakasi East MP Babu Owino.
In a strongly worded statement shared on X, Ahmednasir decried what he described as the “selective and discriminatory application of the law” in Kenya, saying the situation has become too “horrid and ugly to ignore.”
According to the lawyer, about two weeks ago, Robert Alai was involved in a heated fracas at Cedars Restaurant along Lenana Road in Nairobi.
During the confrontation, Alai drew a firearm and threatened to shoot incoming MP Babu Owino.
Ahmednasir claims that the situation was only de-escalated after a police officer intervened and disarmed Alai.
Despite the gravity of the allegations — which would ordinarily trigger an immediate arrest and prosecution — no official communication or update has been issued by the police or the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP). Ahmednasir says this silence is not accidental.
“I hear the police were told by someone in the Office of the President not to touch Alai because his tweets on X and his blogs are useful to the broad-based government,” the lawyer alleged.
He contrasted Alai’s case with a separate incident reported this week in Kilifi, where two Turkish businessmen were involved in an altercation with an ODM politician.
The businessmen were reportedly arrested on the spot and charged with terrorism financing — a move Ahmednasir described as “too convenient,” accusing authorities of weaponising serious charges, particularly when Muslims or foreigners are involved.
The lawyer questioned why the law appeared to be applied swiftly and harshly in Kilifi, while Alai walked free despite far more serious accusations involving a firearm.
“I want the Inspector General of Police and the ODPP, Mr Benson Ingonga, to explain to Kenyans the policy divergence of the two cases,” Ahmednasir said. “Why was Robert Alai not arrested and charged like the Turkish nationals?”
He went further to pose a broader, troubling question about justice in Kenya: whether an ordinary, poor Kenyan from rural Kano Plains would ever be allowed to go scot-free after breaking the law in a similar manner.
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