From: erasto agwanda
Date: Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:35 AM
Subject: Death threat on my life by Kisumu District Criminal Investiagtions Officer
To: “jaluo@jaluo.com”

to: 0724 837 060.
Commander,
Criminal Investigations Officer,
Kisumu County,
P.O. Box 800,
Kisumu.

Dear Sir,

Ref; DEATH THREAT ISSUED TO ME BY KISUMU EAST DISTRICT CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS OFFICER HENRY NDOMBI.

I am called Erasto Agwanda Saye and I am a freelance journalist based in Kisumu County,

I wish to address you on the above matter and seek for your indulgence in regard to recording an official statement with the police.

The sequence of events leading to all these are as follows;

On Monday 12th August 2013 at 8.42.43 am, I sent an sms to Mr.Ndombi asking him if he had read “Citizen Weekly “ headlined “Outcry as grabbed land linked to bogus teachers Sacco” in which he was adversely mentioned by an official of the said Sacco.

Mr.Ndombi replied me on his cell phone number 0722 68 58 67 saying “Thanks, assist us get this idiot bwana Gd dei” at 8.45.34 am assumed that he wanted the numbers of the officials who had mentioned him in the story and sent to him both numbers of the Chairman Mr.Daniel Omotto and his Deputy Solomon Amuti.

The same day at 02.20 pm , a number 0738 561 861 called me and the caller told me that he was DCIO Ndombi and he started throwing tantrums at me calling me an “an idiot” and he was told that I was the one who had done the said story (the attached copy).

He went on to telling me as a DCIO he was “ordering” me to go to his office immediately with another journalist called Dickens Wesonga failure of which he told me that he was going to get me whether dead or alive and I should know that “ameangusha wengi”.

Immediately I sent a sms message to Mr.David Ng’etich the County Police Commander who advised me that I see you urgently in regard to the issue as he said he was out of office.

You can recall that I called you on your mobile number 0721 599 499 and you advised that I see you in the office after an hour and I asked you if I could still see Mr.Ndombi and you told me that it was not necessary and that I come even with my advocate.

At around 3.16pm Mr.Ndombi called me again on his safaricom line number 0722 68 58 67 and I declined to pick instead sending him a sms of what you and my advocate had told me.

The same day at around at around 5pm a person who introduced himself as a police officer met me near the office of Kisumu East District Officer who told me that I am still young “na niachane na Ndombi ama nikule lead”.

The reason I have written to you is to intervene in regard to the above issue which I have been advised not to take lightly so that I record a statement with the police as I have been unable to book the incident at the Kisumu Central Police Station’s Occurrence Book.

I look forward to hear from you,

Regards
Erasto Agwanda Saye

Cc;

-Provincial Police OfficeR Nyanza
-County Police Commander- Kisumu County
-County Commissioner –Kisumu County
-Complaints Directorate, Vigilance House
-Independent Police Oversight Authority
-Criminal Investigations Department Director
-Inspector General
-Cabinet Secretary Internal Security
-Kenya National Human Rights Commission
-Kisumu City Residents Voice
-National Integration Cohesion Commission
-Law Society of Kenya
-Commission of Administration of Justice
-Committee Protecting Journalists
-Doha Centre for Media Freedom
-Frontline Defenders
-Media Legal Defense Initiate
-Amnesty International
-Otieno Ragot and Company Advocates
-Mwamu and Company Advocates
-Olago Aluoch and Company Advocates
-Onyango and Company Advocates