This archive report was first published on 2 July 2020.
On July 2, 2020, a Nairobi Court issued a new direction in a case involving the arrest of two Sarova Stanley Hotel employees, Patrick Rading Ambogo and Janet Magoma Ayonga, who were charged with leaking CCTV footage of President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga inspecting government projects.
The two employees were charged with the offense of unauthorized interception of computer data contrary to section 17(1) of the Computer Misuse and Cyber Crime Act.
However, the magistrate presiding the case directed that the officer investigating the matter record a statement from the complainants for the case to proceed.
The two employees, through their lawyer Danstan Omari, argued that the offenses purportedly perpetrated do not exist in law.
Omari stated, 'This alleged offense of intercepting a security CCTV does not exist in law. Our clients were never in State House and have never gone to any government installation to capture CCTV footage of government.'
