A Nairobi court has freed Rose Njeri, a website developer and activist, after finding that the charges leveled against her did not disclose any offence.
Milimani Magistrate Geoffrey Onsarigo discharged Njeri, ruling that the accusations failed to meet the legal threshold to constitute a crime under the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act. "I hereby refuse to admit the two counts before this court and proceed to discharge Rose Njeri under Section 89(5) of the Criminal Procedure Code," the magistrate ruled.
The prosecution had alleged that Njeri created a system that enabled the public to send mass emails to the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, in protest of the controversial 2025 Finance Bill.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), through state counsel Victor Owiti argued that this action disrupted the committee's email systems, constituting unauthorized interference with a computer system under Section 16 of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act.
