Police officers in Kenya have arrested a prominent blogger and former NTV journalist. According to sources, Yassin Juma has spent his second night at the Muthaiga Police Station in Nairobi, Kenya. Apart from putting the blogger in prison, detectives have grilled him for over five hours.
The blogger was arrested in Donholm on Saturday night. The reason for Juma's arrest was related to his social media posts about the terror attack that occurred in KDF camp in El-Adde, Somalia. The attack left an uncounted number of soldiers dead.
Shortly after his arrest, the blogger was picked up by ATPU detectives and brought in for questioning at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters. The police officers that interrogated Juma threatened him that he would be arraigned at Kiambu Law Courts this morning. Juma is currently facing a charge related to the misuse of a telecommunications gadget.
A senior police officer spoke to MediaMaxNetwork and revealed the blogger's condition inside his cell at Muthaiga Police Station. The source revealed that the case Juma was facing was involved with CID headquarters. Cyber Crime Unit detectives are also working in the investigation.
The arrest done on the blogger came just a week after police Inspector General Joseph Boinnet spoke to the media that they had already identified individuals responsible for posting the gruesome images of the remains of the KDF soldiers believed to be the victims of the attack. True to his word, Boinnet spoke about arresting these "persons of interest" and taking them to court. He further request the media to be responsible with their duties and not be an "unwitting voice" of the terrorists. Apart from the media, Kenyans are also warned against circulating or posting the images.
Before Juma was taken to the Muthaiga Police Station, police conducted a search in his house.
