A blogger in Kisumu County has been arrested by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) after his post on social media turned out to be fake news.
Collins Ochieng on Sunday, January 31, posted on his Facebook account that Ngere high school head boy had been killed by fellow students.
The rumors soon circulated online with a section of netizens believing the unverified news.
Detectives and education officials were quick to dismiss the news terming the allegations as fake.
As it turns out, a video also emerged online showing the head boy leading the Sunday Mass in the school.
Ochieng was later apprehended in a joint operation from officers in Reru and Kombewa police stations. They tracked the blogger to his house in Kisumu County.
A number of bloggers have been on the spot over news perceived to be too controversial or libelous.
Online influencer and blogger Polycarp Hinga was also on the spot over his post claiming that Kibra Member of Parliament (MP) Kenneth Okoth had succumbed to cancer.
However, the rumor turned out to be fake as Okoth was still alive at that time.
Okoth however passed on weeks later.
