UPDATE
The National Police Service has issued a statement claiming that Macharia Franjes Gaitho had been arrested in a case of mistaken identity. The police, in the statement on X, said its target had been Francis Nganga Giatho @FGaitho237, a former parliamentary aspirant for Thika Town Constituency and online activist known for his radical views.
How police could mistake Franjes Gaitho for Francis Gaitho was dismissed as either scapegoating or lazy, which indicted the police for its tendency to take shortcuts because the two men are physical opposites as one is a stocky young man while the other is ageing man who hardly takes to X to express his opinions.