Mombasa parliamentarians have asked the government to provide answers on the abduction and release of Abdulhakim Saggar who last month was taken away by people said to be police attached to the ATPU unit.

Mombasa Senator Mohammed Faki and Mvita legislature Abdulswamad Nassir questioned the motive behind his arrest given that nobody knew Saggar’s whereabouts and neither was he produced before court to answer to any charges against him.

Saggar was set free at around 2 am Saturday night in a thicket he later discovered to be around Voi area with Sh.2000 in his pockets that he used as bus fare back home to reunite with his family.

Senator Faki stated that they were glad he returned home safely, but they demanded to know who was behind his disappearance and what the motive behind it was.

“We demand to know why Saggar was arrested and where he was kept for the last one month, the government must tell Kenyans who was behind the arrests and the motive behind it all,” said Faki.

Faki questioned why he was released at the wee hours of the night in a thicket a factor that further threatened Saggar’s safety.

He further questioned why the police were taking Saggar’s family and lawyer in circles at one point accepting then later denying to have him in custody.

“The law stipulates that an arrested person must be presented in court within 24 hours, why was Saggar kept in unknown location for more than a month without being produced in court?” asked Faki.

Faki added that he was going to write to the senate minority leader Senator James Orengo to compel the government to provide answers on a number of individuals who have disappeared mysteriously after being arrested by police adding that the state was violating human rights with the arrests and disappearances.

Mvita MP Abdulswamad Nassir stated that the government must respect the rights of every Kenyan as enshrined in the constitution.

He warned the police against religious profiling insisting that no religion condones crime and as such the law must follow its due course when one is in the wrong.

“Crime cannot be correlated to a tribe or religion, harshness and badness cannot be correlated to just an institute, for this reason we want to say that it is impossible to say that an individual is taken away without the family or lawyers knowing his whereabouts,” said Nassir.

Nassir confirmed he had visited Saggar on Sunday morning to see how he was fairing, he called on the media to respect the family’s wish of allowing him to rest and spend time with his family.

The legislature also called on members of the public to remain resilient in pointing out any state aggression against its citizens without looking at their tribe or religion.

“When the process of trying to seek justice you yourself do an injustice, that in itself is wrong, the aspect of humanity is that when you are oppressed you need to speak against the person doing the oppressing, today it might be you and tomorrow another,” said Nassir.

The executive director of Human rights group Haki Africa Hussein Khalid added that they were closely monitoring what the DCI would do in the next following weeks stating that there was enough video evidence to implicate the said officer for wrongful detention.

“We are watching very keenly what the government and in particular the DCI will do moving forward, every evidence is available so those responsible must be brought to book, Kenya is not a jungle country, we have laws that must be folled,” said Khalid.

Saggar’s brother Faris Saggar confirmed to the media that he was home but currently undergoing medical examinations to ascertain is health status.

Saggar was arrested on August 18 at Mlango wa papa area within Old Town on his way to the mosque before being released on September 19.

Coincidentally, a missing Kenyan researcher of Somali origin Prof. Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad was also released by his captors on Sunday night in an undisclosed place in Nairobi.