Enough is enough! Man lashes out at DCI in court over blogger Ndiang’ui Kinyagia's disappearance
The disruption occurred during a session convened to hear submissions following a court order issued on Monday, directing Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja and DCI boss Mohamed Amin to present the missing blogger in court.
A dramatic scene unfolded at the Milimani Law Courts on Tuesday when an unidentified man disrupted proceedings in the case of missing blogger Ndiang’ui Kinyagia, accusing the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) of abduction and misleading the court.
The man stood up during the hearing and directed an emotional outburst at the DCI’s legal counsel.
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“We will not come here to listen to your stories. You have abducted someone. His family is crying, and you are here telling us stories,” he shouted. “Enough is enough. Extrajudicial killings and disappearances must end now. We must stop this madness.”
Despite efforts to restore order, the protester continued his rant, saying: “Why should they abduct someone and instead of producing them to court, they come here to start telling us stories?… If the people who are supposed to protect us have turned out to be the greatest threat to our security…”
The disruption occurred during a session convened to hear submissions following a court order issued on Monday, directing Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja and DCI boss Mohamed Amin to present the missing blogger in court.
Both the IG and DCI failed to produce him in court and instead requested more time to continue searching.
Through its lawyer, the DCI denied arresting or detaining Kinyagia and dismissed claims that he was being held incommunicado as “malicious, unfounded, and baseless.”
People Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua criticised the DCI for what she termed as blatant defiance of court orders, arguing that the agency had failed to take the habeas corpus application seriously.
“There has been no compliance. They are not taking the orders of this court seriously. It is their business to find him; that’s why we pay them,” she said.
Karua further questioned the credibility of the DCI’s affidavit, pointing to discrepancies in the timeline of events and the details contained in the documents.
“We have noted several differences,” she said, suggesting that parts of the affidavit may be misleading or even forged.
She also faulted the agency for issuing a late-evening press statement denying knowledge of Kinyagia’s whereabouts instead of appearing before the court to explain the situation.
“He appears before the public to deny holding Ndiangui, but can’t come to court and explain himself? That’s sub judice,” she submitted.
In its affidavit, the DCI claimed that intelligence received on June 20 linked Kinyagia to online posts allegedly inciting the public to storm State House, which investigators argue violated the Protected Areas Act.
The posts reportedly came from an account on X that had also shared a protest timetable for a planned memorial in honour of Gen Z protesters killed during last year’s June 25 demonstrations outside Parliament.
Officers say they traced Kinyagia to an apartment in Kinoo, which they found locked. His phones were reportedly off. A search was conducted on the night of June 21, without a warrant but under Section 60 of the National Police Service Act, during which laptops, phones, passports and other personal items were seized.
The search, according to the DCI, was witnessed by the building’s caretaker, who said Kinyagia had earlier left with one man and two women.
Despite the developments, Karua reiterated her demand for the blogger’s immediate production.
“Produce Ndiangui. That’s your job. That’s why we pay you,” she told the court.
Meanwhile, the DCI, through its lawyer, asked the court to dismiss the habeas corpus application, maintaining that Kinyagia is not in their custody.
“The second respondent did not arrest the second petitioner. He is not in the hands of my client,” the lawyer said.
The court is expected to issue further directions on the matter later on Tuesday.
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