Criminals Infiltrated Demos — DCI Produces Photo Evidence

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has posted a raft of photographs meant to support the claim that criminal elements hijacked peaceful Anti-Finance Bill 2024 demonstrations.

The slew of photos appear to be taken from one locality, likely a menswear store at a shopping mall where it’s unclear whether the youth are vandalizing anything as they appear agitated but certainly not carting away clothing items.

The photos and assertion of infiltration by criminal elements follows a similar claim made by the President during an interview on Sunday night.

“When the Kenyan youths (Gen Z) organized nationwide peaceful protests to exercise their democratic right rejecting the proposed 2024/2025 Finance Bill, other groups with criminal minds took advantage of the situation and devised schemes to cause harm and economically frustrate fellow Kenyans.

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Posing as demonstrators, the bad elements who were also well-organized earmarked several business premises including boutiques, electronic shops and supermarkets, breaking in and massively looting to the detriment of innocent business owners.

As a criminal investigative agency, it squarely falls within the mandate of the DCI to investigate and bring to book any persons involved in such outright criminality, which not only robbed numerous Kenyans their means of livelihood, but also worked towards compromising an otherwise crucial constitutional right.

In that regard, the DCI’s Imaging and Acoustic Unit domiciled at the National Forensic Laboratory has since retrieved numerous CCTV footages that captured identifiable persons, whose felonious acts isolates them from the hundreds of thousands that stuck to their course.

Whereas some have already been arrested and arraigned in various courts today, more are still out there on the streets waiting for other opportune times to strike again, causing more damage and risking the lives of innocent citizens caught up in the course of quelling the crimes.

We can flush them from amongst our numbers because they do not share the principles that define what we stand for, and more so for the sake of those who did not deserve to lose their only means of livelihood in this manner.

Do you know any of them? Please report to any police station or #FichuakwaDCI by calling our toll-free hotline 0800 722 203,” said the DCI statement.

On Monday a number of youth were presented in court with news of another abduction of a purported Gen Z active on X being reported in Nairobi and the death of a youth protestor in Nakuru.

The rest of the country is unusually calm, the kind of calmness that forestalls a storm. The Gen Z demonstrations are expected to take a new turn on Tuesday when all roads leading to major towns will be occupied by protesting youth sitting on the roads.