Human rights advocate and lawyer, Shadrack Wambui, moved to the High Court seeking anticipatory bail, claiming that he is facing imminent arrest by state security agencies acting on political instructions.
In an urgent application filed through his lawyer, Danstan Omari, Wambui alleges that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) are part of a larger scheme aimed at intimidating and silencing him over his civic activism, particularly his role in a peaceful protest held on June 25, in Ongata Rongai, Kajiado North Constituency.
According to court documents, Wambui believes that his intended arrest is politically motivated and timed to occur on a Friday, a tactic commonly referred to as “Kamata Kamata Friday”, which often results in suspects being held in custody over the weekend to punish and silence them extrajudicially
“The Applicant harbors well-grounded apprehension, based on credible information and prevailing political realities, that the real intent is to orchestrate his arrest, particularly on a Friday, as part of the notorious and discredited practice infamously known as “Kamata Kamata Fridays” — a relic of authoritarian regimes where dissenters would be arrested late on Fridays and detained over the weekend to silence and punish them extrajudicially,” read the court documents.
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