Drama ensued at Milimani Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, October 15, that interrupted Meru Senator Mithika Linturi and Marianne Kitany’s divorce case proceedings.
Reports indicate that Kitany’s bodyguard displayed his firearm in court causing panic in a drama that lasted ten minutes.
Kitany’s lawyer, Danstan Omari, however, defended the bodyguard arguing that he had a gun in court because Linturi had threatened his client’s life before.
“Marianne’s life is in danger, and, as a result, she decided to device certain ways of keeping herself safe, including hiring armed bodyguards to protect her,” Omari told Chief Magistrate Peter Gesora.
The magistrate however ordered the Milimani Law Courts OCS to conduct a body-search on Kitany’s security guard, after which a firearm was found in his possession.
Gesora then ordered the bodyguard to leave the courtroom.
This is because court regulations demand that all armed attendees should surrender their weapons at the security check before accessing the courtroom.
The drama interrupted a testimony by Father Jackson Micheni, a Catholic priest at Tigania Parish church who claimed to have solemnised the marriage between Linturi and Mercy Kaimenyi on April 18, 2000.
