Two journalists impersonators charged

On July 9 this year Thomas Ochieng Owino and Fred Odanga Azelwa were first arrested for posing as journalists with the intent of gaining access to the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi's Central Business District, a building housing Senator's offices.

Two journalists impersonators charged

They were arrested on a Ksh10,000 on bail but they were again apprehended on Friday, September 24, and produced at the Milimani Law courts. They were arrested by two DCI detectives. The court documents read "At unknown date at an unknown place within Nairobi City County with intent to deceive, forged a certain media card purporting to be a media card from the Media Council of Kenya, the information you knew or believed to be false, intending to cause the said James Maina Macharia to allow you enter the premises of Kenyatta International Convention Centre which ought not to have done," the charge sheet read in part.

The two were charged for lying to Macharia with the intent of gaining access to KICC on July 9, 2021.