Cops break into Matiang'i's home trying to get CCTV footage

Police on Wednesday afternoon broke into the house of former CS Fred Matiang'i's home looking for CCTV footage on the alleged home raid.

DCI Mohamed Amin said they obtained a search order to obtain CCTV recordings from the home of the former Interior CS Matiang'i to establish the facts surrounding the earlier alleged raid.

Matiang'i's lawyer Danstan Omari said that police were denied court orders to access the former interior CS.

"Out of frustration they drive here in a military form without a court order, get inside the house of the former CS and ransacked his house," he said.

Omari said that police stopped ransacking the house after they asked for the court order.

Earlier, the court had declined to grant orders to the DCI to obtain footage from Bob Morgan security relating to former CS Matiang'i's home raid.

Magistrate Wandia Nyamu instead directed the parties to appear in court on March 7, for an interparty hearing before the court can decide if it will grant the orders.

DCI had sought to extract CCTV footage of the estate around the home of the former CS.

The officers said they are investigating a case of robbery with violence and wanted the court to grant them orders to extract the CCTV footage from several security companies with CCTV in the estate.

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