The security assigned to High Court Judge Lawrence Mugambi has been withdrawn with immediate effect.

This comes barely three days after the judge sentenced Acting Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli to 6 months in prison for contempt of court.

Mugambi had been assigned security after he raised concerns about being surveilled by police officers concerning multiple summonses of the acting IG.

According to the judge, senior police officers had made several inquiries of Mugambi's whereabouts, reaching out to his driver and bodyguard.

The commandant of Security of Government Buildings Lazarus Opicho was at the centre of the controversy, having been the one calling the driver and the bodyguard.

However, appearing before the court on Friday under the summon of Judge Mugambi, Opicho said that the calls were made out of genuine concerns for the judge's security, especially after the shooting of a magistrate at Makadara Law Courts.

He then apologised to the judge saying, “After the Makadara Law Court shooting incident, I found it prudent to personally call the police assigned to the judge for a briefing,” Opicho said.