A former police officer who was arrested for impersonation after appearing on a tv show while in uniform is expected in court today.
There was drama outside Citizen Tv studios in Nairobi when police ambushed and arrested the politician for wearing police uniforms while in studio.
The Usawa Kwa Wote party candidate for Nairobi Woman representative seat Monicah Gitau had walked out of vernacular Inooro Tv studios Wednesday at about 9am when she found armed police officers waiting her outside the compound.
Witnesses said police told her she was impersonating a police officer and was illegally wearing a junior police officer’s uniform while appearing on tv to articulate her personal and political issues.
Gitau told the officers she retired in 2011 from Administration Police Service and she was a candidate for the seat when asked who she was.
She added she acquired the uniform on her own.
Police said Gitau could not give satisfactory account on why she was in official uniform yet she retired more than ten years ago.
It was then she was told she was under arrest and later driven to Kilimani police cells for grilling.
