Law Society of Kenya (LSK) President Faith Odhiambo has confirmed that her chief of staff, Ernest Nyerere, has been arrested under unclear circumstances.

Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Odhiambo revealed that Nyerere was picked up from his house at 5 a.m. on Tuesday by people believed to be police officers.

This adds to the number of social media influencers and content creators arrested and held captive in undisclosed locations in what is seen to be a government suppression of the ongoing anti-Finance Bill 2024 protests, now in their second week.

In the wee hours of Tuesday, popular social commentator Gabriel Oguda was allegedly abducted by suspected police officers from his house.

The others are John Frank Githaiga alias Frenje, Drey Mwangi, Khalif Kairo and Osama Otero, who were also reportedly captured overnight.

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Odhiambo said they were following up on the whereabouts of these Kenyans and Shadrack Kiprono, alias Shad.

Kiprono was vocal in last week's demos and was abducted on Saturday night in Nairobi’s South B area.

LSK in a statement on Xon Tuesday morning, condemned the abductions as a return to darkness, with Odhiambo vowing that the lawyers' body will bring those orchestrating the abductions to book.