This archive report was first published on 14 June 2020.
June 14, 2020, marked another day of controversy for businesswoman Joyce Akinyi, also known as Akinyi Chinedu, following a heated verbal exchange with police officers at her Deep West restaurant in Nairobi West.
According to police, employees at the restaurant were arrested for breaking curfew rules put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Lang'ata Police officers gained entry into Deep West Club after receiving complaints from neighbours about noise and disturbance from the premises, police said in a statement.
On arriving at Deep West at around 2300hrs, the officers found patrons driving into the club in contravention of the curfew rules as proscribed by the Ministry of Health and the presidential decree.
Several people were arrested to be arraigned in court on Monday, the police further said.
The arrests come after several verbal warnings to the establishment over Akinyi Chinedu to observe curfew rules and ensure strict adherence to the set of protocols and guidelines, which have repeatedly been ignored.
Akinyi has a history of clashing with the law, with a past incident involving a physical fight with her then Nigerian husband Peter Chinedu at an entertainment event in 2009.
She was later deported, and the incident has been cited as one of the most infamous in her past.
