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Kitui-based blogger Emmanuel Maleve released on bail

Kitui-based blogger Emmanuel Maleve is hugged by his wife Roseline Mbesa outise a Nairobi hotel on Friday May 02,2025 soon after being released from Muthaiga police station on a bond of Sh50 000. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

A Kitui-based blogger who was abducted by police officers has been released on a cash bail of Sh50,000 after spending a night at a Nairobi police station.

Emmanuel Maleve was dramatically arrested by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) outside a shopping mall in Kitui town on Thursday evening.

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