A vocal youth leader has shocked many Kenyans after confessing that he knew where controversial tech blogger and lawyer Ndiang’ui Kinyagia was hiding, even as the whole country was searching for him.
During a panel discussion aired on Citizen TV on Friday, July 4, 2025, Mark Ouko, who serves as the Youth Coordinator for the National Students Council of Kenya, made this unexpected revelation.
Ouko claimed that through his intelligence networks, he had full knowledge of the whereabouts of Kinyagia during his period of hiding.
While most Kenyans were puzzled and others demanded answers from the authorities about the blogger’s disappearance, Ouko was confident in saying that he knew where Kinyagia was the entire time.
He went ahead to say that even the Directorate of Criminal Investigations was fully aware of the hideout. However, according to him, the DCI chose not to act immediately because they were waiting for a court order to present him in court.
He said this delay was not a result of lack of knowledge or capacity to trace the blogger, but simply a legal technicality that restrained their action.
“I have intelligence that Ndiang’ui was in hiding, but DCI knew where he was, they were just waiting for the court order,” Ouko stated during the live panel discussion.
His comments quickly stirred mixed reactions, not just among viewers but also on the panel. Another youth leader present on the panel did not hold back her concerns.
She strongly criticized Ouko, questioning how he, as a student leader, could possess information that neither the media nor the general public had access to. She implied that it was alarming for individuals without official investigative roles to claim such sensitive knowledge.
“It’s worrying that people like you claim to have intelligence that neither the media nor the public has,” she retorted.
The exchange left viewers questioning the credibility of Ouko’s claims and whether there were deeper links between the blogger’s disappearance and some elements within the government or youth leadership circles. It also raised concerns about the transparency of law enforcement agencies like the DCI, especially if they indeed knew Kinyagia’s location all along but chose not to act immediately.
This new development is likely to attract further scrutiny, especially from human rights groups and legal experts who have been following the Ndiang’ui Kinyagia case closely.
The matter remains delicate, and the public is demanding answers not just about where he was, but also about why such information is in the hands of individuals outside official security organs.
More questions than answers continue to surface, leaving the public confused about who really holds the truth in this case.
