Detectives have arrested Mr. Laban Cliff Onserio, a former deputy director of communications at State House’s Presidential Delivery Unit (PDU), on Sunday morning at Nairobi’s Holy Family Basilica basement (2) after officers who had been called by the church’s security to deal with an altercation involving him discovered the grenade in his car.
The cathedral manages a public parking lot that is guarded round-the-clock by a private security firm.
Laban Cliff Onserio, the current chief of staff for Standard Group and anchor, is being detained by detectives from the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) for having a grenade and threatening to use it in an assault.
Guards claim that Mr. Onserio put his car at the location so that he could attend the SolFest Music Festival at the KICC, and that he only returned to pick it up on Sunday morning while obviously intoxicated.
“His vehicle was stationed at level ii, but he climbed to level three and began making advances at a woman allegedly who was accompanied by other individuals.”
“There was an altercation and he began telling them that he is an officer from British Army hence untouchable.”
One of the security personnel who was on duty at the time remembers the incident.
After the argument, the security personnel summoned the police, who took charge of the situation and searched his car, a Nissan X-trail, finding a stun grenade, a pocket phone model GA-25, and two iPhones.
During demonstrations, riotous crowds are dispersed by using stun ‘grenades’, (I think tear gas canister would have been the right name), which are thought of as a less dangerous weapon comparable to a tear gas canister.
They then called in ATPU detectives, who took charge of the situation and arrested him until his court hearing.
Detectives claimed Mr. Onserio was unable to present a certificate enabling him to possess the flash bang grenade or an adequate explanation for why he had it in his hands.
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