Alai was arrested yesterday by CID officers from the Cyber Crime Unit after he tweeted President Uhuru Kenyatta’s cell phone number and that of his PA Jomo Gecaga last Sunday.
Alai also tweeted the cell phone numbers of Deputy President William Ruto and noted in his tweet that the public can call and ask the President and his aides about the protests in Kainuk, Turkana.
Sources at the CID said Alai was to spend the night at Muthaiga police station.
The police will press charges of misuse of a telecommunication gadget.
Alai was yesterday taken to a Kiambu court but he was not charged.
In his tweets, Alai is also said to have ridiculed the cleanup exercise in Kibera as “Kalongolongo”, which in Dholuo means games played by children.
In other tweets yesterday, Alai said police had directed him to report to Embakasi CID after which he was arrested by officers from the CID headquarters.
Alai has in the past been engaged in a public spat with top government officials, including former head of Public Service Francis Kimemia.
Kimemia has sued Alai for defamation. Last year, Kimemia told a Nairobi court that on March 24, 2013, Alai said Kimemia was in the company of Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Issack Hassan, High Court judge Isaac Lenaola and former Police Commissioner Hussein Ali at a hotel in Karen.
Kimemia told the court that Alai tweeted hours before the hearing of the presidential election petition filed after Cord leader R3aila Odinga and the coalition disputed March 4, 2013 Uhuru election.
Kimemia said the tweets implied that he (Kimemia) was holding the meeting to influence the outcome of the petition.
- The Star
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