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Police want to detain Boniface Mwangi, four others for 21 days over demos

Nairobi

By Nancy Gitonga | Jul 26, 2024

**Activist Boniface Mwangi is hurled into a police vehicle by plain cloth police officers along Koinange Street on Thursday, July 25, 2024.** [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard]

The Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) is seeking to detain activist Boniface Mwangi and four other protesters for 21 days to allow them to complete investigations.

In an application filed at Milimani Law Courts, the DCI is seeking custodial orders against Mwangi, Robert Otieno, Albert Wambugu, Pablo Chacha, and Erot Franco to enable its officers to complete a probe over allegations of false publication, unlawful assembly, and creating a disturbance.

Through Inspector of Police George Karanja, the DCI says Mwangi and the other four suspects’ place of abode is still unknown, and releasing them on bail may jeopardise the investigations.

“That I am investigating a case of false publication contrary to section 22(1) of the Computer Misuse and Cyber Crime Act, creating a disturbance in a manner likely to cause a breach of security and taking part in an unlawful assembly contrary to section 78(1) and 79 of the Penal Code.