Nation Media Group reads malice in arrest of senior reporter

Nation Media Group (NMG) has protested the arrest of senior investigative writer Kipchumba Some.

The journalist was arrested on Tuesday afternoon by three officers along Koinange Street and although he was released shortly after, the media house reads malice into the incident.

This is because there was neither a formal record of his arrest nor a formal complaint.

According to the media house, Some was meeting a news source who apparently set him up.

Prior to his arrest, the journalist had been investigating a story about two brothers; Samatar Yusuf and Abdikarim Yusuf Abdi who were arrested on suspicion of involvement in banking fraud and bribing DCI detectives.

It is alleged that Abdi and his cousin Mohammed Hassan altered customer prepaid card balances at the National Bank of Kenya leading to a Sh135.4 million loss.

NMG reported that the reporter called Abdinajibi Yusuf, a brother of the two suspects, requesting an interview with their father but he declined at first.

He later agreed to meet Some at a restaurant in the CBD but it appears that he had made arrangements with police officers who arrested the journalist.

Yusuf claimed the media house was out to tarnish the name of their family.