{"id":915020,"date":"2022-01-10T15:05:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/10\/police-seek-to-detain-meru-senator-mithika-linturi-for-7-days-over-madoadoa-remarks\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:05:06","slug":"police-seek-to-detain-meru-senator-mithika-linturi-for-7-days-over-madoadoa-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/police-seek-to-detain-meru-senator-mithika-linturi-for-7-days-over-madoadoa-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek to detain Meru Senator Mithika Linturi for 7 days over madoadoa remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rcxmlq4ulopstex61dc3e2dceb3d.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\"><strong>Meru Senator Mithika Linturi at Kaptembwo Police Station in Nakuru on January 9, 2022, following his arrest over remarks he made during deputy president Wiliam Ruto&#8217;s rally in Eldoret. <\/strong>[Kipsang Joseph, Standard]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Police are seeking to detain Meru senator Mithika\u00a0Linturi\u00a0to conclude investigations over the alleged incitement remarks he made during Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s rally in Eldoret on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) filed an application pending before the court seeking to hold Mr\u00a0Linturi\u00a0for seven days at the Kaptembwo Police Station in Nakuru.\n<\/p>\n<p>Linturi\u00a0was arrested on Sunday morning in Eldoret and driven to Nakuru County before he was taken to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) offices in Nairobi. <\/p>\n<p>He was later returned to Kaptembwo Police Station where he spent the night.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"YkVJMSgqtdA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fury and condemnation greets Linturi&#039;s utterances as police arrest him, bring  him to Nairobi\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YkVJMSgqtdA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The miscellaneous application dated January 10, 2022, filed by a police officer and an investigator seconded to the commission, seeks to have\u00a0Linturi\u00a0detained at the police station to enable them complete investigations on the case of Ethnic contempt contrary to section 62(1) of the NCI Act No. 12 of 2008.\n<\/p>\n<p>In the State\u2019s application, it is observed that the same word \u2018madoadoa\u2019 had been used in the year 2007 to whip emotions which resulted in ethnic clashes within the same region.\n<\/p>\n<p>The commission further noted that this being a general election year, the utterances made are likely to cause political tension that may result in violence. <\/p>\n<p>Being a weekend, the police argue that the investigating team did not manage to obtain a forensic cyber report from the Communication Authority of Kenya.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police says they need time to record statements from the witnesses who were present during the said rally and the respondent being a powerful politician may interfere with them if granted cash bail\/bond.\n<\/p>\n<p>The detective further argued that the senator could tamper with the witnesses citing case number E007\/2021 before Milimani Law Courts.\n<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that\u00a0Linturi\u00a0tried to bribe the complainant and the witnesses by giving them a lump sum cash Sh200,000 and a cheque of Sh800,000 respectively so as to drop a charge of attempted rape contrary to section 4 of the Sexual Offences Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>Linturi\u00a0is expected to appear before court virtually when the application will be argued. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>[email\u00a0protected]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mx-auto col-12 row justify-content-between\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6 col-12 row  p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-9 text-left\">\n<h5 class=\"politic-cat\">\n<b>Monitor water pumps remotely via your phone <\/b><br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Tracking and monitoring motor vehicles is not new to Kenyans. Competition to install affordable tracking devices is fierce but essential for fleet managers who receive reports online and track vehicles from the comfort of their desk.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001433997\/police-seek-to-detain-senator-mithika-linturi-for-seven-days\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meru Senator Mithika Linturi at Kaptembwo Police Station in Nakuru on January 9, 2022, following his arrest over remarks he made during deputy president Wiliam Ruto&#8217;s rally in Eldoret. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] Police are seeking to detain Meru senator Mithika\u00a0Linturi\u00a0to conclude investigations over the alleged incitement remarks he made during Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s rally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}