This archive report was first published on 22 July 2019.
On July 3, 2019, Dennis Itumbi, a former State House Digital Communications guru, was arrested at City Hall and driven to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters on Kiambu Road for questioning.
He was released a week later on Sh100,000 cash bail after Senior Magistrate Zainabu Abdul ruled that the police had squandered days given for further investigations.
Itumbi was charged with the offence of making a false document without authority contrary to section 357 of the penal code at a Nairobi court.
The charge sheet reads that on June 20, 2019, at an unknown place within the Republic of Kenya, Dennis Njue Itumbi made a document dated May 30, 2019, purporting to be a genuine one made by a cabinet secretary, a fact he knew to be false.
He was also charged with programming a mobile phone contrary to the section 84G of the Kenya Information and Communications Act.
The charge sheet further reads: “On the 30th day of June 2019, at an unknown place within the Republic of Kenya intentionally not being a manufacturer of a mobile phone, you interfered with the operation of mobile phone Make Samsung Note 9 Dark grey dual SIM IMEI 352455/10/030/824/6, 352456/10/03824/4.”
