A crackdown carried out over the past week has led to the arrest of 29 people believed to be part of a widespread forgery network that has been operating across Nairobi and several rural towns. Multi-agency teams behind the operation say they acted on intelligence that pointed to a group producing fake documents and exposing
Law Society of Kenya (LSK) President Faith Odhiambo has strongly opposed comments made by Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, insisting that only the courts have the legal authority to decide who is a terrorist. Her statement was made during an interview on Citizen TV’s The Explainer Show, where she explained that LSK’s recent criticism of
On Sunday, July 30, Siaya Governor James Orengo blasted intentions to charge activist Boniface Mwangi with terrorism. Orengo called the move ludicrous, claiming that terrorist charges against an activist were nonsensical. “By stretch of any tortured legal definition and factual foundation, it’s ridiculous to charge Boniface Mwangi and our children who have demonstrated a high
Eight young men are now being branded as terrorists by the government simply because of a protest-related incident at Mawego Police Station in Rachuonyo North. This move, widely seen as a misuse of the law, shows how the state is now stretching its powers to punish dissent. These youths, arrested over the July 3 fire