Emerging details indicate that Patrick Safari, the prison warder nabbed alongside controversial blogger Robert Alai, is not new to controversy.
Safari was arrested on Tuesday and arraigned on Wednesday over claims of sharing gruesome images of fallen officers killed in a terror attack.
Emerging details indicate that the later was arrested in July 2015 over claims of being an Al Shabab terror group sympathizer, and interdicted for three years over the alleged crime.
He was arrested in Samburu where he had just been deployed to and later charged in Lamu for allegedly of tweeting that a senior police officer had been killed in a landmine attack.
In the fake news tweet, he said that the officer lost his life in Hindi area, an attack that was carried out by the Somalia-based militant group.
According to the Nation, he was reinstated early last year, before his latest arrest, where he is accused of furnishing Alai with the images of the police officers killed in Wajir last weekend.
Ironically, he was among the first ones to condemn Alai's arrest, saying that the blogger was not the source of the photos, in a message directed at Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang'i.
"Why should they arrest @RobertAlai ? I'm sure he wasn't the source of the photos. The photos must have originated from (an) angry police officer involved in the operation. They shared them to expose the rot in the service and to express their disappointment” he said, according to the Nation.
He has also been linked to the 2017 elections in Ukambani, where he reportedly handled former Senator David Musila's social media platforms.