There was drama at the Nakuru Courts after journalists were barred from covering proceedings where an Egerton University is accused of spreading terror threats on Facebook.
Nakuru magistrate Liz Gichae ordered journalists and members of the public to leave the court room after the prosecution and the defence differed over the hearing of the case where the suspect, Robert Mungai alias Robert Mohammed Bluez is accused of perpetrating terror messages and threats targeting Egerton University on social media.
The court had on June 15 given the prosecution two weeks to supply the defence with cyber and anti-crime reports and to prepare the witnesses fully to proceed with the case.
Mungai’s lawyer, David Mongeri, said he had not been supplied with any document despite his availability.
The state counsel said that the charge sheet needed to be amended since there were some words written in Arabic which Mongeri refuted saying he did not know about.
Some of the evidence the investigating officer had gathered had allegedly not been supplied to the accused’s lawyer as earlier ordered by the court.
Investigating officer, Alex Muinde, revealed a VCD cassette as some of the evidence before court which Mongeri objected.
Mongeri said that the prosecution was desperate to adjourn the case, of which the directions of the court were to do everything within 14 days.
The case will be heard on July 15.