The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has described as fake a list doing rounds on social media purportedly from the agency.
The list bearing a letterhead of the DCI has widely been shared on various social media platforms, listing 25 individuals that, according to it, had been arrested for undergoing militia training at the Chebororwa Agricultural Training College (ATC).
But in a tweet, the DCI said the list did not originate from them.
“The Directorate of Criminal Investigations hereby clarifies that the attached document doing rounds in sections of the media, is not authentic and has not originated from the Directorate or any of our officers. You are advised to treat it with the contempt it deserves,” the DCI tweeted.

A probe has now been launched to ascertain the source of the said list, the DCI revealed.
“Detectives based at the Forensic Cybercrime unit have launched investigations to determine its source and have the authors brought to book,” added another tweet.
The fake reports of the recruits arrested by the DCI come barely a week after Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago, Uasin Gishu gubernatorial candidate on UDA ticket Jonathan Bii Chelilim and Cheptiret Member of County Assembly (MCA) Gilbert Tenai were summoned by DCI to record statements over claims they were training a militia at the Chebororwa ATC.
After recording the statement, Mandago dismissed the claims, insisting that the said ATC was a county training facility.

The governor who is the UDA Senate candidate in the county also claimed that allegations that he was training a militia were being peddled by the Uasin Gishu gubernatorial candidate on an independent ticket Bundotich Zedekiah Kiprop alias Buzeki.
It had been alledged that the three leaders were training the county askaris to be their militia during this electioneering period.
But to counter the claims, Mandago visited the ATC with a group of elders and the area security team.
The county is also set to hold a pass-out parade ceremony for the county askaris that were undergoing training, who include fire department personnel.
A poster seen by Uasin Gishu News shows that the pass-out is scheduled for Wednesday, June 15, 2022.
