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Drama has ensued outside the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi after the mention of Trans Nzoia County Governor George Natembeya’s corruption case.
This was after the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers dramatically arrested three men as they were leaving the Milimani Anti-Corruption Magistrate Court on Monday, June 3, 2025.
The men were among the large crowd, which was leaving the court premises immediately after the county boss had left using the Anti-Corruption Court gate.
Police pounced on them, and the men started resisting the arrest by the plainclothes officers, causing commotion at the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court.
However, the officers managed to arrest three of the four they had targeted and whisked them away in vehicles parked outside the court premises.
Meanwhile, one of the targeted men has managed to escape with help from a lawyer who shielded him from the EACC officers.
According to the DAP-K party, the leaders include Sinyerewri Ward MCA John Chigi Makhanu, Natembeya’s assistant Emmanuael Wanjala, Trans Nzoia County Director of Communications Felix Sialo, Nawirei Programme chairperson Martin Waliula, and Natembeya’s protocol officer Dean Frank.
Lawyer’s rant
According to eyewitnesses, the EACC officers had been camping at the court’s gate from 8 am, waiting to strike.
The arrest has been condemned by a group of lawyers led by Paul Wamalwa, who was following the man who had been helped to evade the EACC dragnet, claiming they had been arrested wrongly.
He further stated that they will not be cowed by the frequent arrests.
“You will not kill us; we are not threatened; this is our country, Kenya. Why are they ambushing people like this? This is our country,” lawyer Wamalwa ranted.
Notably, the motive behind the arrest of the three men remains unclear, and the EACC has not yet issued an official statement on the incident.
The directive comes after the prosecution admitted it had failed to comply with a previous court order requiring the disclosure of materials in the case.
“Those documents and statements ought to have been supplied by now… I therefore direct the prosecution to comply with the earlier orders,” the magistrate ruled.
