Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti on Wednesday, September 23, recommended for Senator Cleophas Malala to be charged for unproven claims he made over an assassination plot by some police officers.Appearing before a joint sitting of the Senate Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs & Human Rights and the Senate Committee on National Security, Defence & Foreign Relations, Kinoti observed that the investigators could not find any information to support the legislator’s claims.”Based on evidence on record we find that allegations by [Senator] Cleophas Malala are untrue, malicious, false and ill-intended. The author of the claims should be charged for giving false information in accordance with Section 129(B) of the penal code,” he stated. DCI Boss George Kinoti Speaking during a press conference at DCI headquarters on March 5, 2020.Simon KiraguKenyans.co.ke Section 129(B) of the penal code directs that whoever gives to any person employed in the public service and uses the lawful power of the person employed in the public service to the injury or annoyance of any person, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for three years.Kinoti further stated that the allegations impacted on character assassination of members of the Special Service Unit and called for the author to apologise to the unit.”These are serious allegations impacting he character of members of the Special Service Unit that has exposed them to ridicule and contempt in the eyes of the members of the public,” he argued.He also observed that Malala was asked to furnish investigators with specific dates when he was trailed, and telephone numbers and photos of the purported assassin police officers which he had alleged on media platforms to be in possession of. The DCI boss told the committee that the Senator failed to provide the information to aid in investigations.He told the senators that only one name of the officers presented by the Senator was found in the database. “The officer has never served in DCI, hails from Kakamega where Senator Cleophas Malala represents; there is no existing bad blood between them.”Hotel La Mada management and staff affirmed that meetings fitting the description as alleged by Senator Malala never took place within the premises, and that the said motor vehicle has never been at the premises,” he stated.Malala during a Parliamentary session on September 14, stated that his life was in danger as he claimed that police officers with sniper rifles had been trailing him. Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala wipes off tears in the Senate on September 14, 2020.YouTube