Detained DCI detectives under pressure to frame boss George Kinoti
DCI detectives detained over missing Indians under pressure to frame boss George Kinoti according to their lawyer.
Nine detained members of the Special Services Unit, which has since been disbanded, have said that they are being forced to incriminate George Kinoti in return for their freedom.
The nine DCI detectives are accused of Killing two Indians and their taxi driver.
On Thursday, March 3, they informed Chief Magistrate Diana Mochache through their lawyer Dunstan Omari that their detention was politically motivated to settle a score.
Since the families of Mohammed Said Sami, Zulfiqar Ahmed, and Nicodemus Mwania renounced the bones and clothes that investigators recently pulled from the Aberdare forest, they said retaining them violates their rights, particularly the right to be released on bail or bond.
“My clients are before this court just because the state wants to use them to settle political scores. It is their commander (George Kinoti) who is being targeted and they are under pressure to incriminate him and turn him into a state witness,” Mr. Omari told the court.
“Even the bones and clothes that were allegedly retrieved (and suspected to belong to) the two Indians and their driver have been disowned by their families,” he added.
However, investigating officer Michael Kirui told the court that since the investigations started, there have been threats on the lives of those involved in the case, therefore, releasing the accused on bail or bond could put the investigators at risk.
“There is genuine fear and anxiety. Preliminary investigations point to a larger network of individuals who are yet to be arrested and hold crucial information in our investigations,” Mr. Kirui says in his affidavit while asking to continue detaining the accused.
But the defence demanded evidence to show that indeed his life and that of the other investigators are in danger.
“There is no OB which has been put before you to show that indeed there have been threats on their life. My clients have been in detention for over twenty days since their arrest and the state has failed to prove that indeed the respondents have a case to answer,” Dustan Omari said.
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