Jailing Kinoti and Wanjigi’s guns; Case proves rule of law still matters
Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti when he appeared before departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations on December 2, 2021 where he provided comprehensive responses on the issues raised by the DPP and actions taken on the murder of Ms Agnes Wanjiru in Nanyuki in 2012.
In April, 2019, Judge Pauline Nyamweya found that the Inspector-general of the National Police Service and the Director of Public Prosecutions had abused their offices in their entire approach to the Wanjigi saga.
The judge also found that the duo had acted in bad faith and were motivated by extraneous factors.
What a stunning reversal! For a man so utterly consumed with garish dramas, George Kinoti’s entirely self-inflicted current predicament is uncannily consistent with his fast and loose modus operandi.
At the height of the post-election stand-off in 2017, police officers staged raids at Wanjigi’s residential properties. To obtain warrants for entry and search, they had told the court that they had reason to believe that illegal firearms, ammunition and explosives were kept there. Between Malindi, Mombasa, Muthaiga and Parklands, the police claimed that military-grade self-loading rifles, shotguns and other firearms were recovered, together with the nasty accessories that go with them.
