Court denies DCI access to Tuju’s home CCTV footage
By Zipporah Ngwatu, March 25, 2026The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has suffered a blow after a Nairobi court dismissed its application that it was seeking orders to have them access Raphael Tuju’s home CCTV footage.
Through a notice of motion filed on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, the DCI wanted court orders authorising Officer Francis Gitau or any other officer to have access to Tuju’s home situated along Mwitu Road within Karen.
Upon gaining access, the officer was to extract untruncated and unedited CCTV footage of the entire premises for the period between March 21, 2026, at 1700 hours and March 23, 2026, at 1400 hours.
They also sought to have that court compel Tuju to permit Officer Gitau or any other officer authorised by them (DCI) to access his premises for the purpose of extracting the said CCTV footage of the home for the same period.
Application dismissed
Dismissing the application, Milimani Principal Magistrate Daisy Mutai cites that the investigations which are being pursued by the applicant are premised upon a suspected false report presented under OB NO. 17/22/03/2026.
She notes that the report was, however, presented by someone else other than the respondent (Tuju) himself, and yet the warrants for investigation sought are against him and particularly to retrieve evidence from his home.
“The court has been notified that there is also a suspected false report that was presented by the respondent (Tuju) himself at the police station, although the details thereof have not been indicated in the application,” Magistrate Mutai noted in her ruling.
Notably, Magistrate Mutai revealed that the application does not disclose an offence that is to be investigated on Tuju, i.e., him giving false information to a person employed and being investigated as opposed to a person employed in the service contrary to Section 129(a) of the penal code.
While declining to issue the orders sought, Magistrate Mutai on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, struck out the DCI application.
“In view hereof, I find that it is only in the interest of justice that the application be struck out, and so hereby strike out the application dated March 25, 2026, with no orders as to costs,” Magistrate Mutai ruled.