DJ Joe Mfalme, six others to be remanded for 14 days

Popular Kenyan deejay Joe Mfalme, real name Joseph Mwenda, and six others held for assaulting DCI officer Felix Kelian will be remanded for 14 days.

Mwenda alongside Allan Ochieng, Eric Kariuki Gathua, Simon Wambugu Wanjiru, Khadija Abdi Wako, Sammy Cheruiyot Rotich and Agnes Kerubo Mogoiare are accused of assaulting Kelian on March 16.

A Kibera on Monday court allowed the application to have the suspects detained so that the police to conclude investigations into the matter.

Magistrate Margaret Murage while allowing the application directed that the DJ be detained at Muthangari together with Eric Gathua and Simon Wanjiru.

Allan Ochieng will be detained at the Kabete police while the three officers Khadija Abdi Wako, Sammy Rotich and Agnes Mogoi at Riruta station.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (ODPP) had requested the court to grant them 21 days to detain the seven suspects.

The prosecution told the court that the accused persons are a flight risk and hence should be detained until investigations into the matter are completed.

The court was told they could easily interfere with investigations.

Reports indicate that Mwenda, his bouncer, driver, photographer and a lady were driving home at around 4 am after performing at the Kikuyu club that fateful Saturday.

Police say a "non-injury traffic accident" involving inspector Felix Kelian and the DJ’s vehicle at the club’s parking lot sparked an altercation.

The officer had reportedly hit the DJ’s car from the rear but before the case was solved by traffic officers from Kikuyu Police Station, the DJ and his crew reportedly attacked Kelian.

It is alleged that the three officers arrived at the scene, arrested Kelian and took him to Kikuyu Police Station, where Mwenda and his team joined the but were later allowed to leave without recording a statement.

The DCI officer was left complaining of abdominal pain and was first rushed to the Langata Hospital before being referred to Nairobi West Hospital where he died.

A medical report indicates Kelian suffered injuries to his urine bladder and that at the time of arrival at the hospital, he was unable to pass urine for around four hours.

It indicates blunt abdominal trauma as the immediate cause of death.