Ian Njoroge, a 19-year old University Student alleged to have assaulted a traffic police officer for allegedly demanding huge bribe, has lamented over extreme police brutality while in police custody after his arrest.
His defense Lawyers told the court that officers who arrested him handled him in an inhumane manner and he was tortured and degraded beyond human perseverance.
Appearing before Magistrate BenMark at the Milimani law courts, Duncan Okatch and Vincent Lempaa and Echesa Lubengu, told the court that Njoroge was molested in his house at the time of the arrest and the torture proceeded in police cells.
A short video showing Njoroge being interrogated was also played in court which the prosecution argued is clear proof of mistreatment since the officers hurled insults at him.
“What the complainant did to him in that car, I can say he was manhandled by the complainant, the accused is a first-year student in one of the public universities and he has a future that he is pursuing, he has parents and was arrested in the house of the parents. At the station he was beaten and the clothes he was on were blood stained.” Said Lawyer Okatch.
