Police do not have the missing activist and blogger Ndiangui Kinyagia, the Director of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Amin Mohammed, has revealed.
While addressing the media on Monday, Mohammed said that Kinyagia, the alleged itinerary planner of the Gen Z commemoration protests, is not in the custody of the detectives or the police.
Speaking outside the DCI headquarters, Amin dismissed claims that the missing blogger was in the custody of the police.
Additionally, he directed that the blogger should immediately present himself to the police to aid in explaining the circumstances of his disappearance.
Further, the top detective revealed that the blogger was a person of interest to the directorate after publishing what he termed as "very inflammatory material" that prompted an interest in him.
"Ndiangui Kinyagia is not under the custody of the National Police Service; he is a person of interest to us, and wherever he is, I'll urge that he submit himself and that he surrender to the nearest police station," Amin stated.
However, Amin admitted that his officers managed to search the house of the activist and were able to recover electronic items.
''Unfortunately, he (Ndiangui) was not in his apartment. We managed to search and we were able to recover an assortment of electronic gadgets that we believe will be useful to us in our investigations. We were able to do an inventory, which was countersigned by the caretaker of those apartments.''
Kinyagia had shared a post on his X platform on Thursday, June 19, detailing the itinerary of the June 25 protests that included a plan to march to State House and the declaration of a new republic.
In the timetable, the protests were to commence at 8am with an opening prayer, followed by a praise and worship session, then ten minutes of silence for fallen Gen Zs who died in last year’s anti-Finance Bill protests.
Other main items of the agenda included speeches by representatives of the parents of departed youth, time slated for running battles with police, and an assembly by citizens at the main roundabouts in Nairobi, which would occur at noon.
Afterwards, the citizens would then lower the UDA Presidential Standard and raise the Kenyan flag. A new republic would then be declared “by the people for the people.” A new transition council would then be sworn in, with the last agenda being action meted out on the Head of State.
On Monday, Justice Chacha Mwita ordered the Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, and the DCI boss to produce missing blogger Ndiangui Kinyagia.
Failure to do so, Justice Mwita ordered Kanja and his DCI counterpart to appear in court tomorrow to show cause why Kinyagia cannot be produced in court.
