Digital strategist and political blogger, Pauline Njoroge has come forward to reveal information regarding her arrest on Friday, July 22nd.
Pauline has been a major critic of the new administration headed by President William Ruto since he got into office.
In a tell-all she posted on her socials, Pauline recounted the dramatic events that led to her arrest in Watamu.
According to the Jubilee Party Deputy Organising Secretary, her arrest was issued by high authorities, who prompted the DCI to begin their tracking expedition.
“The order to have me arrested was issued last week on Wednesday by the powers that be, and the DCI immediately started tracking me,” she began.
Pauline claimed that on the prior day of her arrest, she received a strange call from an individual who identified themselves as a representative of the bank.
The person claimed to posse confidential documents he wanted to hand over and requested her to visit Malindi alone.
Pauline decided to ignore the invitation as she found it rather queer since she had not disclosed to anyone her location.
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“We left the hotel that afternoon to go see Gedi Ruins, Hells Kitchen and the first Church in Malindi, which was set up by the Portuguese. When we left the hotel we found a double cabin vehicle parked outside the resort,” she continued.
Pauline’s friend Nduta was unnerved by the double-cabin vehicle but dismissed the concerns. Little did they know those were government agents trailing them.
“We passed the vehicle and proceeded to join the tarmac road. We had hardly gone a kilometre before the very same vehicle blocked us on the road and asked us to follow them to Watamu Police Station.”
At the police station, the officers seized their phones and proceeded to interrogate them in separate rooms.
This lasted for two hours before the officers took Pauline, her friend and the driver back to the hotel for an unwarranted search.
Pauline claims that the substances officers claimed as psychotropics in the charge sheet were actually collagen and Vitamin C supplements that she had just purchased.
She further said that one of the officers produced an implanted roll of bhang behind the TV, falsely implicating the room occupants.
“That was the first time in my life that I was seeing a roll of Bangi. My friends can confirm that” she added.
The officers took them back to the station and conducted a search of the vehicle they were in. They allegedly found 2 rolls of bhang, a discovery that Pauline terms ‘came out of nowhere’.
“At that point, I told the officers that it was now clear the games they were playing in order to fix us, but since we were helpless in this situation we were going to leave the matter to God in heaven who judges the affairs of men.”
Entries in the OB showed that the three individuals, Pauline, her friend and the driver, were accused of possessing narcotics and psychotropic substances, hence viable to jail detention.
The trio remained in custody until Monday, July 24th when they were arraigned in court. She noted that the prosecutor’s charge sheet surprisingly lacked any mention of narcotics.
“Even as per the application, I was supposed to be charged for hate speech against the Head of State and hate speech against the State, which is unheard of and cannot apply under our constitution.”
The prosecution team led by Vivian Kambaga decided to withdraw their application to have the trio denied bond, which resulted to their release on free bond.
“As for me, I still do not know what crime I had committed to warrant my detention….This is my message to them: I shall not be silenced! By detaining us, you only strengthened our resolve. We will not sit and watch as some fellows try to turn the clock back, recreating our country’s dark past,” she wrote on the post.
