George Kinoti, the director of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), has been spared a four-month prison sentence.
The Court of Appeal approved a temporary injunction blocking the DCI boss’s arrest and eventual imprisonment in a judgment issued on Wednesday, December 15.
The sentence was stayed by a three-judge panel chaired by Justice Fatuma Sichale, awaiting the delivery of a comprehensive judgment on April 1, 2022.
This comes after the Attorney General told the appellate court that Justice Antony Mrima made a legal error when he sentenced Kinoti to prison without being heard.
The AG contended that the DCI does not keep or store civilian guns through lawyers Cecil Miller and Wilfred Nyamu.
DCI Kinoti had requested that the warrant of arrest be stayed, as well as the continuing harassment he was receiving from businessman Jimi Wanjigi and his wife, Nzisa Wanjigi.
He expressed concern that unless the court interfered in his case, the harassment would continue.
