{"id":70538,"date":"2024-07-26T15:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/26\/court-denies-dci-custodial-orders-on-boniface-mwangi-in-incitement-case\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T15:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:05:01","slug":"court-denies-dci-custodial-orders-on-boniface-mwangi-in-incitement-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/court-denies-dci-custodial-orders-on-boniface-mwangi-in-incitement-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Court denies DCI custodial orders on Boniface Mwangi in incitement case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 26 \u2014 The High Court has admitted activist Boniface Mwangi and four associates to Sh20,000 cash bail each to declining DCI\u2019s bid to hold them for twenty-one days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) had applied for custodial orders for the five to complete investigations in incitement case.<\/p>\n<p>Milimani Principal Magistrate Gilbert Shikwe however said the applications failed to list compelling reasons. He slotted a mention on August 26.<\/p>\n<p>The DCI accused the five of false publication, taking part in an unlawful assembly, and creating a disturbance in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Road blockage <\/h2>\n<p>The DCI, in its application on Friday, alleged that the five caused breach of peace and inconvenienced other road users along Nairobi\u2019s Koinange Street by blocking the road after placing one white coffin and seven crosses on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe respondent during the blocking of the said road were distributing t-shirts and placards with incitement words,\u201d DCI stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d the agency argued.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested the five on Thursday while demonstrating in the CBD protesting police brutality on protestors.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) condemned the arrest and called for the release of the activists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree Boniface Mwangi and Hussein Khali,\u201d KHRC said vowing to sustain the clamour for the prosecution of police officers blamed for killing protestors.<\/p>\n<p>Before his arrest, Mwangi had sent out an update informing his followers of an intended meeting point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee you at Kimathi Street at 11 am. Let\u2019s escort the families of our heroes to the scene of the crime to lay flowers,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you see Raila (ODM leader) anywhere, record a video calling him a traitor, let the old man spend the rest of his life knowing he betrayed Kenyans for a few coins,\u201d Mwangi said referring to the nomination of four senior ODM politicians to President William Ruto\u2019s Cabinet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 26 \u2014 The High Court has admitted activist Boniface Mwangi and four associates to Sh20,000 cash bail each to declining DCI\u2019s bid to hold them for twenty-one days. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) had applied for custodial orders for the five to complete investigations in incitement case. 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