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Two arrested for posting false information about CS Matiangi on social media

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations on Saturday, July 25, arrested two suspects believed to be behind authoring and publishing false information about Interior CS Fred Matiangi on Facebook.

33-year-old freelance journalist Isaac Kibet Yego and 19-year-old Emanuel Kimutai Kosgei were arrested in Ngeria area, Uasin Gishu County, after claiming that CS Matiangi had tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

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