In exchange for their release, nine detained officers from the defunct Special Services Unit claim they are being pressured to implicate former Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti.
The nine are charged with murdering two Indians and their taxi driver.
They told Chief Magistrate Diana Mochache yesterday, through their counsel Dunstan Omari, that their arrest is politically motivated in order to settle scores.
They claim that because the bones and clothes recently recovered from Aberdare forest by investigating officers and identified as belonging to Mohammed Said Sami, Zulfiqar Ahmed, and Nicodemus Mwania have been disowned by their families, keeping them in custody violates their rights, particularly the right to be released on bail or bond.
“Even the bones and clothes that were allegedly recovered (and thought to belong to) the two Indians and their driver have been disowned by their families,” Mr. Dunstan Omari, the defense lawyer, said.
Mr Sami and Mr Ahmed are said to have been working with a digital media team affiliated with President William Ruto when they were kidnapped on July 22 near the Ole Sereni Hotel in Nairobi.
However, investigating officer Michael Kirui told the court that there have been threats on the lives of those involved in the case since the investigations began, and that releasing the accused on bail or bond could put the investigators in danger.
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