The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has applied for orders to detain activist Boniface Mwangi and four others for twenty-one days to complete investigations into an incitement case.
The DCI has accused Mwangi, Albert Wambugu, Robert Otieno, Pablo Chacha, and Erot Franco of false publication, taking part in an unlawful assembly, and creating a disturbance in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace.
In an application on Friday, DCI alleged that on Thursday, July 25, around 11:30 a.m., at CBD, along Koinange Street, the five caused a breach of peace and inconvenienced other road users by blocking the road and placing one white coffin and seven crosses with names inscribed on them.
“The respondent during the blocking of the said road were distributing t-shirts and placards with incitement words.”
“The respondents through various social media platforms had posted allegations that the government was out to kill its citizens which words were deemed and construed that the government was perpetrating extrajudicial killings; posts which incited the members of the public causing a breach of peace.”
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The police told the court they were conducting an investigation to establish the motive of the assorted arresting officers confiscated from Mwangi and his associates.
The investigation will seek to establish who financed the white coffin and crosses the activists carried. DCI also sought to know where the activists obtained the items.
“That the place of abode of the five is unascertained and releasing them may jeopardize the investigations,” DCI said.
Police arrested the five on Thursday while demonstrating in the CBD protesting police brutality on protestors.
