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Matiang'i let go after 'grilling' at DCI headquarters over home raid

Former Interior CS Fred Matiangi (centre) at the DCI headquarters. Matiang'i remained at the DCI interrogation room for eight hours in the company of his lawyers. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

Six months ago, on an ordinary day like yesterday, March 7, 2023,former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i would be holed in a high-level security meeting at the Office of the President.

Or he would be briefing the head of state on some important government matter he had been tasked to supervise. However, on Tuesday the former powerful CS found himself in an unfamiliar territory.

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