This archive report was first published on 18 July 2020.
Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja was arrested on the night of Friday, July 17, in Kilimani, Nairobi, for violating curfew rules.
According to a police statement, the senator was found at a club along Dennis Pritt Road, where he was accused of resisting arrest, being violent, and inciting others.
“Today at around 1 am the Kilimani orderly officer received information that one bar within Dennis Pritt Road was still operating. On visiting the said place, he found about ten people seated outside drinking amongst them Senator Johnson Sakaja,” the police report stated.
Senator Sakaja was released from custody and allowed to go home by the time of publishing on July 18, 2020.
He was seen in a video asking for his phone at a police station, where he told his close associate, “Don’t get into trouble with me. I’ll fight this thing myself, just go.”
He also asked the police officers, “You know me for 10 years but these police officers have known me today but they say I’m drunk. Am I drunk?”
