Standard Media boss arrested with a grenade while threatening to attack in church
Standard Media boss, Laban Cliff Onserio arrested with a grenade while threatening to attack in church on Sunday
Standard Media boss, Laban Cliff Onserio arrested with a grenade while threatening to attack in church on Sunday.
Detectives from the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) are holding Standard Group’s Chief of Staff Mr. Laban Cliff Onserio for being in possession of a grenade and threatening to attack using it.
According to a report, Onserio was apprehended on Sunday, December 18, while reportedly threatening the public with a grenade.
A report dated Monday, December 19 claims that the incident allegedly took place in the basement of Nairobi’s Holy Family Basilica in Nairobi’s central business district.
According to guards, Mr. Onserio had parked his car at the facility to attend the Solfest Music Festival at the KICC and only came to pick it up on Sunday morning while visibly drunk.
“His car was parked at level two, but he went up to level three where he started hitting on a woman who was in the company of other people. An altercation ensued and he started telling them that he is a soldier from the British Army and hence untouchable,” recalled one of the guards who was on duty at the time.
Following the altercation, the guards called in the police who took over the case and conducted a search at his car, a Nissan X-trail, and recovered a stun grenade, a pocket phone model GA-25, and two I-phones.
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Detectives accused the journalist of failing to declare to the security guards that he was in possession of the flash-bang training system grenade.
He also reportedly failed to provide a certificate to show that he legally owned the grenade.
The report further added that the journalist was unable to satisfactory reasons why he was in possession of the flash-bang grenade.
“The respondent was arrested by a multi-agency team who responded at the scene after receiving information that there was a terror threat.
“He had not made a declaration to the security guards that he was in possession of the Flashbang training system grenade,” the report detailed.
DCI further accused Onserio of illegally accruing the grenade in 2021, from a British national currently working with an airline company in Kenya.
He was suspected to be in possession of more flash-bang grenades, prompting the investigating team to require more time to obtain a search warrant.
It was also speculated that the journalist had associates and the detectives and security agencies within and outside the country launched a manhunt for them.
“The explosive device recovered has been forwarded to the Bomb disposal and hazardous unit to be forensically examined and reports are yet to be obtained and analyzed,” the report detailed.
In addition, his cell phones were forwarded to the ICT laboratory for forensic examination, and analysis to determine whether there are any terrorism links.
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