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A file photo of Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho.
The High Court has jailed Interior PS Karanja Kibicho for three months for defying courts orders.
Justice George Odunga directed IG Joseph Boinnet to immediately arrest Kibicho and send him to prison to serve the sentence.
Kibicho defied orders requiring him to pay torture victim Michael Mahugu Sh2.6 million.
He had been ordered to appear before the judge on Monday but his lawyer said he was held up in a meeting.
The judge ordered an appearance on Tuesday but he also failed to honour this, prompting the ruling.
Kibicho was summoned over his failure to obey previous orders.
Odunga had ordered the Inspector General to personally execute a warrant for his arrest.
He said the OCPD at Central police failed to apprehend Kibicho as ordered on October 13. Both Boinnet and OCPD are Kibicho's juniors in the Interior ministry.
This was after Kibicho failed to obey an order issued on December 5, 2015 requiring him to pay Sh2,647,019 to a Nyayo House torture victim.
On Friday, the Mombasa High Court ordered the arrest and prosecution of Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery for the destruction of a yacht used to traffic heroin worth more than Sh20 million.
Chief magistrate Julius Nang'ea asked the DPP to prosecute Nkaissery and four other senior government officials for blowing up the crucial exhibit without court orders.
"This is a serious case. The ship was an exhibit that was in the custody of the court but it was blown up," he said on Friday.
Interior PS Kibicho jailed 3 months for ignoring court order
