Council protests arrest warrants against governors
The Council of Governors has strongly condemned what it describes as a “shocking and unacceptable assault” on Lelelit Lati, Governor of Samburu County, outside the Senate precincts on April 1, 2026.
Addressing the press in Nairobi on Tuesday, the Chair of the Council of Governors and Wajir Governor Ahmed Abdullahi expressed concern over actions allegedly taken by the National Police Service following reports of plans to arrest Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja for failing to appear before the Senate committee.
Abdullahi said the council viewed the matter as a collective institutional issue rather than an individual governor’s defiance of parliamentary oversight.
“Members of the press and citizens of Kenya, the Council of Governors brings to your attention with utmost concern the actions by the Office of the Inspector General of Police in what appears to be an unwarranted and disproportionate exercise of force in the attempt to arrest the Nairobi Governor following his failure to appear before the Senate’s County Public Accounts Committee,” Abdullahi stated.
