In a fresh development, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Tuesday, December 31, sought permission from the Chief Magistrate at the Milimani Law Courts to obtain the mobile phones belonging to Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah and other individuals arrested during the demonstrations seen on December 30.
In a petition filed on behalf of DCI by the Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), prosecutors stated that they were seeking to obtain the phones to extract messages and pictures shared on social media by Omtatah and his co-accused would assist the DCI in their investigations. "The mobile phones of the suspects need to be taken to the Communication Authority of Kenya to extract WhatsApp, Facebook, and X messages and photographs taken that inciting members of the public against the state," the petition read in part.
The DCI is conducting investigations accusing the Busia senator and the 22 others arrested over incitement to violence and disobedience of the law over the protests held in Nairobi and other parts of the country on Monday, December 31. CBD Protestors on Monday, December 30, 2024.
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