Mohammed Amin’s actions have gone beyond carelessness and crossed into dangerous abuse of office. His role as the Director of Criminal Investigations was supposed to uphold truth and justice, but all he has done is mislead, deny, and lie to the public.
In the recent disappearance of Ndiangui Kinyagia, Amin is not only contradicting himself but openly mocking the court, the constitution, and the people of Kenya. Instead of giving straight answers, he claims Kinyagia is not in police custody, yet he demands that the same man surrender to the authorities.
How can someone who is not in custody be asked to surrender? That’s not just confusion it’s deception.This is the same method Amin used in the case of Albert Ojwang, who died mysteriously in police custody.
Amin went to the Senate and gave a well-rehearsed denial, even though every piece of evidence pointed at police involvement.
And now, the same playbook is being used on Kinyagia. Witnesses saw heavily armed men believed to be police officers abduct Kinyagia from his home. Yet Amin claims to know nothing. To make things worse, his office raided Kinyagia’s house and took his electronics. That’s not how an innocent investigation is done.
You don’t raid someone’s home and seize evidence while claiming they’re not in your custody.The High Court saw through these lies and ordered Amin and the Inspector General to produce Kinyagia or explain his whereabouts.
But instead of cooperating with the judiciary, Amin issued a press statement full of contradictions and half-truths. He has completely ignored the court’s authority, pushing the Law Society of Kenya to seek a habeas corpus order just to get basic information on whether Kinyagia is dead or alive.
In any functioning democracy, such court defiance would be grounds for immediate removal from office. But in Kenya, Amin continues to speak down to the public as if no one can see through his lies.
This growing list of unanswered questions is not just about Kinyagia and Ojwang it reflects a wider crisis in the DCI under Amin’s leadership.
There’s a clear pattern: critics of the government disappear, police deny any role, then DCI scrambles to clean up the mess with press statements and legal tricks.
The fact that Kinyagia’s name is already being floated in connection with investigations, while he is missing, exposes Amin’s tactics. It shows he knows more than he is admitting but is determined to buy time and confuse the situation long enough for the truth to be buried.Mohammed Amin’s continued presence in office is not just a problem it is a threat to public trust and constitutional order.
A man who openly lies, disobeys court orders, and participates in cover-ups should not be allowed to hold any public office, let alone head a powerful investigative agency.
If Kenya truly respects the rule of law, then Amin should be facing a tribunal, not cameras. His time of lying to Kenyans must come to an end.
