Maving Wanjala has through, a letter to The Weekly Vision online complained of being framed up for unknown reasons.
Maving Wanjala
Below is his letter to the media
A young man who was recently arrested by the police for allegedly selling digital editions of local newspapers has come out fighting to clear his name. Mavin Wanjala was arrested following a complaint filed by Nation Media Group's chief security officer Dickson Mathenge. Mathenge told the police that pirated PDF copies of Business Daily and Daily Nation were circulating on social media.
Maving Wanjala has through, a letter to The Weekly Vision online
complained of being framed up for unknown reasons. Below is his letter to the
media.
I am Maving Wanjala a student at Technical University in
Mombasa and a subscriber on Nation Media Group (NMG) daily e-papers. I happen
to have registered with the NMG and I've been paying them before I get their
daily e-papers. There was this day that they came from Nairobi to my home in
Bungoma county. They then arrested me claiming that I had hacked into their
systems and shared their papers illegally of which I don't know how I hacked
their systems.
They went ahead and published the same on their paper being
the 'Daily Nation' of May 5, 2020, on page 9. This has brought fear on my side
because they have already sentenced me as well as tarnished my name. I am sure
when we resume our normal schooling the administration may suspend me because
of the name NMG has branded me (hacker).
At the behest of NMG, police took me from my home on April 30
and detained me at Kimilili Police Station cells before transferring me to Industrial
Area Police cell on May 2. They were to take me to court on May 4th, but they
failed until I was released on police bail. It's my uncle who has been
helping me over this issue because I have no one to help me out.
I only have a single parent, that is my mother. She is
advanced in age. At the moment, she doesn't know what is happening. So, this
has brought fear to me. I am scared of my safety and my online documents.
I don't know how they happened to trace me and arrest me
without my knowledge. They have infringed my rights and tarnished my name. I
can't attend our normal online classes because of the same issues.
I have nobody else to help me because of the orphan status. I
am sure my uncle alone can't help me get over this. I therefore humbly request
the media to help me fight for my rights because NMG and police want to
re-arrest me and take me to court on May 25.
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