Former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s son, John Jomo Kenyatta has moved to court challenging the State's move to revoke his firearm licence.

In court papers seen by Citizen Digital, he says that his license is valid up to April next year.

Jomo wants the court to order the Firearm Licencing Board and the Attorney General barred from demanding his license without following the due process set out in the Firearms Act.

On Friday, police raided Jomo’s Karen home in Nairobi to conduct a search for firearms. According to the former Head of State, the officers used vehicles with Sudanese number plates and sought to ransack the place.

"I got a report from my son that he came and the watchman said they were people claiming to be DCI officers in a vehicle with Sudanese registration who claimed they want to speak and see him,” Uhuru told journalists on Friday after arriving at the scene.

The police had at the time left the scene. 

Mr Kenyatta has since defended his family's gun ownership as legitimate, telling Kenyan media editors on Monday that his two sons own six guns in total, three each, and that all of the firearms are legally registered. He clarified that his daughter Ngina does not own a firearm.

According to the former president, none of the boys have received orders to surrender their firearms as has been claimed in the media and by top government officials.

After the raid on younger Kenyatta's home, the government confirmed raiding three homes in Nairobi’s Karen area in search of 23 firearms allegedly used to perpetrate illegal operations in the country during the ongoing anti-government protests.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki said security agencies had been tasked to search the area as part of a broader operation which seeks to weed out civilian firearm holders and leaders of known criminal gangs.