Kimaiyo, Grand Mulla in a fight over mocking tweet
The recently dismissed Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) chairman David Kimaiyo over the weekend sparked an online fight with a city lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi.
The confrontation was occasioned by a tweet from the Senior Counsel that apparently mocked Kimaiyo for his recent dismissal from the airports authority.
David kimaiyo was utterly humiliated and thrown out of the window…literally. KAA chairmanship was too big for him @WehliyeMohamed
— Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC (@ahmednasirlaw) June 25, 2016
An agitated Mr Kimaiyo fired back by quoting a 2014 opinion piece written the lawyer on Daily Nation newspaper, which he claimed showed how Grand Mullah was always opposed to his work as Inspector General in the fight against terrorism.
Ahmednasir Abdullahi wasn't happy with my operations on terrorists, https://t.co/pUEtSIZ9om… Am proud I managed, no more bombs in Nairobi.
— IG (Rtd) Dr. Kimaiyo (@IGkimaiyo) June 26, 2016
“Kimaiyo is a Bible-wielding police officer, (who) spends more time in Bible studies than in mapping out security strategies,” Ahmednassir had said in the opinion piece.
The lawyer, in the Twitter fight, named Mr Kimaiyo as the only person fired twice by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Kimaiyo is the only Kenyan HE Uhuru sacked twice in two years…God HE Uhuru has a very low opinion of the man!!@WehliyeMohamed @UKenyatta
— Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC (@ahmednasirlaw) June 26, 2016
The former IG didn’t take it lightly and asked if the lawyer had seen the sacking letters on his behalf.
Did you receive the alleged sacking letters on my behalf? Get facts right and don't look for a job in my name. https://t.co/vLpufBEHEU
— IG (Rtd) Dr. Kimaiyo (@IGkimaiyo) June 26, 2016
In a gazette notice released on Friday, President Uhuru Kenyatta revoked the appointment of Mr Kimaiyo as Chairman of the KAA, replacing him with immediate former Chief of Defense Forces Julius Karangi.
