Kilifi Deputy Governor Gideon Saburi will spend three more days in police custody after having his day in court.
Kilifi deputy governor sent to jail for 3 more days
Saburi got a clean bill of health last week
Kilifi deputy governor Gideon Saburi to spend 3 more nights in police custody
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Mr Saburi was arraigned on Monday before Mombasa Chief Magistrate Edna Nyaloti with public prosecutors seeking to have him detained for 14 days.
The Kilifi second-in-command was dramatically arrested last week just a day after he was declared recovered from Coronavirus.
Kilifi deputy governor Gideon Saburi when he was arraigned in court, to spend 3 more days in police custody
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The DG will continue his stay at Port Police Station until Thursday when Magistrate Maloti will deliver a ruling on his bail application.
Mr Saburi maintains that he was never directed to stay in quarantine for 14 days when he returned from a trip to Germany, where he is believed to have contracted the infection.
Through his lawyers, he challenged the prosecution to produce evidence on the claim that he violated a self-quarantine directive.
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