TikToker Kakan Maiyo released on Ksh.10K police bond after dramatic arrest

TikToker and businessman Kakan Maiyo has been released on a cash bail of Ksh.10,000 after spending two nights in custody at Muthaiga Police Station.

Maiyo was initially scheduled to be arraigned in Milimani but was instead returned to the station. He is accused of incitement for allegedly making inflammatory remarks and alarming publication targeting police officers and their families through his TikTok content.

Speaking after his release, Maiyo said he was interrogated over several of his online videos and that his mobile phone was confiscated during the process.

His legal team has dismissed the charges as baseless arguing that the accusations do not meet the legal threshold for prosecution.

“They wanted to know whether I am acting in a group but I told them that those were my personal views,” Maiyo said.

Lawyer Phillip Maiyo said: “The allegations were neither here nor there, Kan is a man of God and he was doing the Lords work.”

The TikToker’s uncle Peter Kakan: “My prayer to the President is that we have a national conversation so that everyone knows his role.”

Maiyo is known for his social media content where he calls out failures of the government, police brutality, as well as marketing his logistics company.

In one of Maiyo’s most-viewed videos, he is seen warning security officers behind the enforced disappearances of government critics that “a time is coming when you will go to abduct someone and you will not return to your stations alive. Mark my words.”

“The wrath of God is upon this government. When it strikes, none of you who have been involved in the abductions of Kenyans will survive. Your families will cry the same tears these families have cried,” he says in the video.

“No amount of arrest, abduction, or killing will silence Kenyans. It is a waste of time.”

A video that circulated on the internet on Wednesday evening showed three apparent plainclothes officers forcefully pinning Maiyo to a wall in a corridor indoors before leading him away.