(NDIMA/IFEX) – Four journalists from the rural bi-weekly newspaper “The Sharpener” have been arrested by police in the Nyeri District of Central Kenya following the alleged disappearance of computer equipment. The reporters, including the publisher of “The Sharpener”, Kinyua Mutahi, were rounded up between Monday 18 December and Tuesday 19 December 2000. They are being […]
(NDIMA/IFEX) – Four journalists from the rural bi-weekly newspaper “The Sharpener” have been arrested by police in the Nyeri District of Central Kenya following the alleged disappearance of computer equipment.
The reporters, including the publisher of “The Sharpener”, Kinyua Mutahi, were rounded up between Monday 18 December and Tuesday 19 December 2000. They are being held incommunicado at the Nyeri police station.
Mutahi was picked up at a Nyeri hotel on the night of Tuesday 19 December. He was led to his rural home, where a futile search for the computer equipment was undertaken.
Others rounded up include the sons of prominent Nyeri personalities, whose parents were making fruitless efforts to secure their release as of the afternoon of 20 December.
The computers went missing at Intex Computer Bureau between 16 and 17 December. Police are questioning anyone remotely associated with the business. Mutahi is a client of the bureau, which he uses to typeset his publication. “The Sharpener” is barely two months old.
