By Anderson Ojwang
The bid by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to search the Karen home of former Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju flopped after High Court Judge D. Mutai declined to give the order.
The Judge said the DCI did not disclose an offence that was to be investigated against Tuju and struck out the application.
“As it stands therefore, I find that on a balance of probabilities, the application does not disclose an offense that is to be investigated on the part of the respondent himself i.e. of him giving false information to a person employed being investigated as against a person employed in the service contrary to section 129 (a) of the penal code.
In view hereof, I find that it is only in the interest of justice that the application be struck out and hereby strike out the application dated 24/3/2026 with no orders as to costs,” he ruled.
And yesterday, former Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa asked President Ruto to shed light on how he got the title deed of the disputed commercial land, which he shared with ODM party leader Dr Oburu Oginga.
Oburu in a recent radio talk show said President Ruto told him that the new owner of the premises has a title deed to the facility and even shared it with him.
“I want to challenge the president to make public how he got into the possession of the title deed and when and how? We may be scavengers but we only need justice for Tuju,” he said.
President Ruto while in Rarieda at the birthplace of Tuju said a solution over the estate of the latter should be found.
Ruto said Tuju should be provided with honest advice in order to salvage his estate over a commercial debt dispute with a commercial bank.
He said the solution to the dispute should be arrived at to enable Tuju to move on with his business.
Ruto said Tuju needs to get honest advisors and accused a section of politicians of using his woes to sell their political agenda.
“Recently some people went to lie to Tuju and asked him to claim he has been abducted. Tuju needs honest friends and advice in order to be helped.
He doesn’t need scavengers who are trying to scavenge about the misfortunes of a citizen. Those looking for prominence over the tribulations of a fellow Kenyan. We want Tuju to be advised and his property salvaged so that he can move on.
They are trying to introduce the name of former president Uhuru Kenyatta in their cheap politics,” he said.
On Monday, Wiper leader and the leader of Azimio La Umoja was driven to the police station after he agreed with the arresting officers that he would be delivered to the facility.
Kalonzo stayed at the police station for hours and condemned the police harassment of Tuju and demanded justice for the former Rarieda MP.
Tuju disappeared on Saturday night after he had on Friday reported to Karen Police Station that he was being trailed by an unmarked vehicle.
Tuju reappeared on Monday and told the press that he had sought refuge at a home near Kiambu to evade his trailers.
However, police on Monday evening arrested Tuju over what they claimed as giving false information to the police.
At the police station, Tuju developed medical complications and was to be treated at the police station before he was transferred to Karen Hospital.
On Tuesday, the police failed to charge him in court after he developed a further complication and had to be rushed to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
In the police charge sheet read: “On the 21st day of March 2026 at Entim Sidai Spa and Wellness Sanctuary in Karen within Langata sub county, informed Purity Kobia, a person employed in public service as the OCS Karen police station that he had been traced by unknown assailants and later abducted, information he knew to be intended to be acted upon by the same officer.”
Tuju recently wrote to the Inspector General of police Douglas Kanja seeking his intervention over continued occupation of his business premises by the police.
Tuju said it was wrong for the police to continue occupying his premises without any court order or documents and businesses in the facility continue suffering huge losses.
“With utmost humility, may I seek your kind and gracious intervention as the Inspector General. In the middle of the night of 13th March 2026, a contingent of over 100 policemen raided Dari Business Park with an inordinate number of police vehicles.
They had no court order. Until this morning the police are still occupying the Business Park. They are waiting for instructions from above. There is no documentation or explanation from any police officer,” he wrote.
Tuju said the police should allow the tenants to access the facility even if they deny him entry into the premises.
“I request that while you have all the brute power of force to stop me personally from gaining access, the tenants running legitimate businesses should be allowed to get items like laptops from the offices,” he wrote.
Tuju said he was yet to get any verbal or written confirmation from the police over the continued stay in his premises.
“Not even a verbal explanation. We are witnessing an amazing Hollywood playing deaf response. Besides all the above, may I, with all the respect I can fathom, request that you address the following issues that should not be associated with our police force, ‘Utumishi kwa Wote,” he wrote.
Tuju said businesses in the premises continue to incur huge losses as they cannot access the facility.
“Your Officers have been occupying the Dari Business Park for the last 6 days.
The 24 tenants, including the Tamarind restaurant, continue to incur huge losses.
Professionals like lawyers have not been able to remove vital files and laptops from their offices. Even the politest request from professionals seeking to get documents from their private offices under police supervision or escort have been stopped by rudeness at worst or silence at best,” he wrote.
Tuju asked the Inspector General of police to explain to him why the police raided his premises at night while they did not have any court documents.
“Some of the police vehicles that came for the 2:40 a.m. raid removed their vehicle number plates and identification of the police station they originated from. As a civilized country, we need a professional police force. Many of the policemen wore balaclava masks,” he wrote.
