The court has released activist Boniface Mwangi and four others unconditionally in the unlawful demonstrations case.
Principal Magistrate Gilbert Shikwe freed the suspects after the police sought more time to complete investigations.
The court declined a further two weeks request by the prosecution to finalize probe into alleged unlawful assembly and publication of false material.
The magistrate ruled that there was no report produced by investigator that would be favoured giving in him more time.
“This court has declined the application by the applicant who is not in court on the grounds that no document has been produced in this court proving the far they have gone in their investigations,” the magistrate ruled.
After their release, the activists walked out chanting #rutomustgo slogans before holding a press conference outside Milimani Law Courts.
Mwangi said that it their right to demonstrate and demanded for the release of two brothers Jamil and Asmail Longton and Bob Njagi who were abducted in Kitengela.
Mwangi, Robert Otieno, Albert Wambugu, Pablo Chacha and Erot Franco were arrested on 25th July 2024 in Nairobi CBD.
The police were seeking to have the suspects detained for 21 days to allow them to complete investigations.
However, the court declined and released all five on a cash bail of Sh 20,000 each.
