The Anti Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) will today morning be seeking court orders to detain six NTSA officers for 30 days.
ATPU said this is to ensure they investigate their alleged involvement in registration of the car used by the Dusit attackers.
They officers are motor vehicle registration official Antony Kadu, Director of registration and licensing Jacqueline Githinji and her deputy Cosmas Ngeso.
Others are clerical officers in charge of dispatching number plates Stephen Mbaka and his counterpart in the logbook transfer section.
Another officer is Nderitu Irving.
The ATPU had arrested 68 officers mainly from registration and licensing department.
The six were detained after grilling.
They are linked to issuance of registration number KCN 340E to different motor vehicles and one of them, Toyota Ractis was used by attackers at the Dusit hotel complex on January 15.
Kadu is said to have requested his colleague Augustine Musembi to re-issue the same registration number to the car used by the attackers.
Musembi was arrested on Tuesday and is in custody after the ATPU obtained custodial orders the following day.
He is alleged to have written to the Kamiti Maximum prison to make the number plate.
They were arrested because of their possible involvement in aiding and abetting the attack.
A number of officers at Kamiti prison have also recorded statements over the registration saga and most implicated the NTSA officers.
The suspects’ lawyer Danstan Omari protested what he called ATPUs delaying tactics to continue holding his clients.
He said the state did not have any reason to have the suspects in court in due time having arrested them on Wednesday morning.
However, state counsel Harrison Kiarie said the agency had arrested more than 60 people and investigations took long.
Kiarie said he had arrived in court on time but it took him long to locate the duty court.
The ATPU arrived in the court premises five minutes to 5pm and got into the duty court past 5pm.
The officers found senior resident magistrate Caroline Nzibe already gone.
They later moved to senior principal magistrate Martha Mutuku’s courtroom.
Mutuku directed them to present the suspects before her tomorrow because they appeared in court past 5pm.
She told the defense lawyers that they can submit on the delay in presenting clients late.
The six were forced to spend another night at Muthaiga police station.