(NDIMA/IFEX) – The editor of a Nairobi weekly magazine “Post on Sunday”, Tony Gachoka, locked himself up in his office to avoid being arrested by police on 8 July 1998. About ten plainclothes policemen had visited Gachoka’s office at about 10 am. Gachoka said that he and his lawyer, Philip Murgor, had talked to the […]
(NDIMA/IFEX) – The editor of a Nairobi weekly magazine “Post on Sunday”,
Tony Gachoka, locked himself up in his office to avoid being arrested by
police on 8 July 1998. About ten plainclothes policemen had visited
Gachoka’s office at about 10 am.
Gachoka said that he and his lawyer, Philip Murgor, had talked to the
Director of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID ), who told Gachoka
to hand himself over to the police. Area CID boss Henry Nyaosi said he
wanted him “for a chat”. According to
Gachoka, the police had no arrest warrant.
In other news, Esther Mwangi, a journalist for “The Nation”, Kenya’s
largest circulating English daily, was assaulted by the proprietor of
Muthaiti Girls School in Nakuru District in the Rift Valley Province of
Kenya on 8 July. Mwangi had gone to the school to cover a story on a
students strike when the owner confronted her and asked her who she was and
what she was doing in the school compound, assaulting her in the process.
