Court denies request to block media coverage of meth case

Judicial officers with officers from the criminal investigations next to a generator and a water tank that operated a clandastine laboratory in Ololepo village in Namanga on December 11, 2024. [Kanyiri Wahito Standard]

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) Magistrate Njeri Thuku yesterday declined an application to gag the media from covering the trial of six people suspected to be behind a methamphetamine laboratory in Namanga, Kajiado County.

Lawyer Evans Ondieki made the oral application, saying that media coverage of the case had painted their clients as guilty, yet the trial had not yet concluded.