TROUBLEMAKER

Man disrupts court session in Nairobi, demands activists release

“The justice system is broken," he was heard shouting

In Summary
  • Addressing the press outside the court after being freed, Mwangi and the activists told security officers to release the missing persons.

  • He claimed there were three people who were allegedly abducted at the height of the protests and there whereabouts remains unknown.

A court orderly struggles to eject the man outside the courtroom on September 3, 2024.
A court orderly struggles to eject the man outside the courtroom on September 3, 2024.
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A man has today interrupted a session at the Milimani law courts while demanding that some activists be freed.

Julius Kamau, who was armed with a placard emerged from a crowd in the courtroom and started waving it while shouting, 'release our brothers.'

Kamau was among the attendees at the courtroom who had accompanied some activists led by Boniface Mwangi and four others who were appearing for the hearing of a case in relation to the Gen Z protests.

“There is no justice. The justice system is broken, we cannot persevere like this, and we must fight until the very end. I am ready to die for that,” he shouted as the court orderlies struggled to eject him," he shouted.

“Colonialism never really ended.” 

The session had to temporarily come to a halt as the presiding magistrate watched in disbelief the ensuing drama.

The session later resumed after the officers managed to whisk him out. The court cleared them accused of the charges.

Addressing the press outside the court after being freed, Mwangi and the activists told security officers to release the missing persons.

He claimed three people were allegedly abducted at the height of the protests, and their whereabouts remain unknown.

“We shall march to State House to give the president the list of all those missing,” he said.

This is not the first time Kamau has tried to interrupt an event.

In June, he breached security and disrupted a photo session of the Budget team led by ex-Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung'u outside the Treasury Building in Nairobi.

Ndung'u was posing for photos before leaving for the Parliament for the budget reading for the Financial Year 2024-25.

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