Ode Francis: Citizen TV crime reporter arrested in Nairobi

Ode Francis had been deployed to the Nairobi central business district to report on protests at Kimathi Street when plainclothes officers arrested and detained him.

Masolo Mabonga is the HOD of Politics and Current Affairs at TUKO.co.ke, covering crime and court news. Mabonga has over seven years of journalism experience and joined TUKO.co.ke in 2019.

Nairobi police arrested Citizen TV journalist Ode Francis on Tuesday afternoon while he was covering demonstrations against rising fuel prices in the city centre.

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Footage and eyewitness accounts showed officers physically dragging the journalist along Kimathi Street near its junction with Kenyatta Avenue, a short distance from the Sarova Stanley Hotel, before forcing him into a police Land Cruiser.

Both members of the public and colleagues from the media who were present at the scene appealed to the officers to release Ode, repeatedly identifying him as a journalist on duty.

Source: Tuko