By MN Reporter

Migori governor Okoth Obado has chided his political detractors to move ahead and ‘catch me like a chicken’ after he skipped senate committee summons over audit queries.

Speaking last Friday in Rapogi during the funeral of Mzee Oketch Orindo

READ ALSO: Obado to be escorted by police to face Ayacko, Senate committee over audit queries,

Ayacko is the chairman of the Senate’s Public Accounts Committee and on May 6 he refused to honor summons to appear before the committee in a special sitting in Kisii county together with his executives to answer audit queries.

He has been re-summoned to appear before the committee on June 4, which he said he will skip.

“I heard that on June 4 I will be arrested if I don’t honour the summons, I want to say that I am waiting for the police arrest and escorted me,” Obado said.

“Whoever has been offended can come and catch me like a chicken, they should go ahead nowadays I am used to that,” Obado said.

During the Kisii special sitting, Obado failed to turn up with Ayacko terming it as an act of impunity and gross insubordination.

“The committee would opt to use powers invested before it to ask the police to pick him up. He has to chose to voluntarily come with his executives or be escorted by the police,” warned Ayacko then, a statement which irked the governor.

The Friday funeral was the first public meeting the two leaders had after the May 6 failed sitting.

Obado is no stranger to being arrested and charged before court in his two term stint as Migori governor since he was elected in 2013 general elections.

On August last year, Obado and his four children availed themselves at Kisii EACC offices where they were placed in custody and later charged before Milimani Law Courts in fraud related charges. He was later released on Sh8.7million cash bail.

On November 14, 2018 Obado was arrested by police as he was leaving a hotel in Nairobi and question over 8 guns that were found in his house by EACC detectives during a raid in search of evidence on corruption.

Earlier on September of the same year, Obado was also arrested and charged before court to face murder charges over the death of his girlfriend Sharon Otieno and their unborn child.