By Chris Ojow
Twists and turns as the two accused a middle
aged male and a youthful female charged with
Intercepting footage of alleged Kenyan
Presidential Convoy demands for the
statements of the head of state and AU Special
Envoy.
On 02 June 2020 at around 8pm East Africa
Time along Kenyatta Avenue Nairobi County,
past the initial curfew hours the two accused
Patrick Rading Ambogo and Janet Magoma
Ayonga former employees of Sarova Stanley
were accused of being behind the recent
footages on social media where prominent
personalities believed to be the Head of state
and AU Special Envoy, were seen along the
streets of Nairobi past curfew hours inspecting
the ongoing City streets beautification.
Through their officers of the Court Danstan
Omari for the second accused and Apollo
Mboya for the first accused while addressing
members of the fourth estate at Milimani law
Court on Wednesday 17th June at 10.37 East
Africa Time, through a joint statement said that,
they are heading to the Director of Criminal
Investigation headquarters along Kiambu Road
to request for the two statements of the said
two personalities captured in the footage.
The accused who were arrested on 6th June
2020 and freed on a police bond presented
themselves before Nairobi’s Senior Principal
Magistrate Bernard Ochoi at Milimani law
Court, where they were charged with one count
of an authorised interception of a computer
data, contrary to section 17 (1) of the Computer
misuse and Cybercrime act.
The Court was not informed by both the State
Prosecution and defence the owners of the
Computer data that was allegedly intercepted.
As the Magistrate freed the accused on a bond
of 30,000 surety of the same or a cash bail of
10,000 Kenya shillings plus one contact person
each.
The State prosecution has lined up four
witnesses to testify against the accused.
On 02nd June at 8pm, Patrick and Janet are
alleged while working together, they
intentionally and without authorization
intercepted a security CCTV footage capturing
the head of state’s Convoy along Kenyatta
Avenue.
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