A Kenyan blogger Jackson Tirkolo Saruni, who hails from Nakuru,was Saturday arrested by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for posting on Facebook a message that was deemed offensive to Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery.
Mr Saruni was blamed for accusing Nkaissery of betraying the Maasai community by trying to impress senior Jubilee leaders who are from another tribe.
“Each one of us knows that anything Kikuyu cannot in anyway help the maasai nation and any of us to a civil service appointment as any other Kenyan is but must not return the favor to the appointing authority by doing what Nkaissery is doing at the Moment. Nkassery is cutting off the hand that has fed him all this time and he will pay for it dearly,” read part of the blogger’s post.
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