Job Bwonya said it was the responsibility of the police to offer maximum security to the plane so that residents cannot get to it.
“It was very unfair to arrest this man because it was the negligence of police who failed to secure the aircraft that particular day,” Bwonya said.
"There was no single police at the venue. We are wondering if this was because Jacob was a supporter of the Opposition,’’ he said.
Bwonya said that as human rights activists, they will assign Saleh a lawyer and ensure he is set free.
The Star has learnt that Saleh was among a group of ten youths who had been selected to carry Juma’s body once it was offloaded from the aircraft for public viewing.
Hanging on to a chopper while drunk as a skunk is an offence.
How could the police know every stop these guys parading Juma’s remains ‘for public viewing’ were going to land? Did they give an itinerary AND request police presence?
How could the ruling coalition have predicted that Saleh and his friends, high as kites on busaa, would go and sit on the skids of the chopper?
That’s the tragedy of it all. People swarming a chopper without a clue about the sensitive environment that machine operates in. If the pilot had not been skilled enough to balance it with 4 human beings handing on the front end, the consequences would have been dire.
Meanwhile, Wanjala now commonly referred to as the “Bungoma James Bond” will get a free ride once he is discharged from his hospital bed. A Sirisia politician Moses Nandalwe has promised to fully pay for him a helicopter ride to any destination in the country.
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The politician is not being generous but doing what they do best: ride on another person’s death, fame or notoreity. Today, everybody wanted to be pictured beside hospital beds visiting OKOA-JaKuon demo victims, or with Bernard Ngatia of Ndumberi.