A Woman narrates before court how she was forced by police officers to strip herself naked and stand on top of a table to be searched.
Emma Nyambura Wairimu appeared before Magistrate Robinson Ondieki in her defense over robbery with violence case against her.
Wairimu told Court that when she was arrested on September 13, 2016, police officers locked her in a room and ordered her to produce a firearm when they alleged was used in the commission of a robbery.
According to Wairimu, the police officers told her to strip herself and stand on a table then started brutalizing her to produce a pistol they alleged was used on a robbery offence.
“The police officers locked me in a house and told me to remove all my clothes and stand on a table, they then started assaulting me telling me to produce a pistol,” said Wairimu in her defence.
She told Court that she informed police that she has never owned a firearm but they did not listen to her, instead they commanded her to take them to her house where they searched but no firearm was recovered.
“They told me to take them to my house. They asked me what I would like them to do to me in the event they recover a pistol in my house. I told them they can proceed to kill me,” she told Court.
In the case, Wairimu is charged alongside Dishon Peter Mulinge, Gerald Mwangi and Rick James Muchai with robbery with violence.
The prosecution alleged that the four suspects on the night on October 31, 2015, at Kio Heights Apartments house number C7, in Lavington area within Nairobi, armed with dangerous weapons namely two M-16 rifles, and a mini pistol robbed Dennis Mombo Ksh 80,000, a golden wristwatch valued at Ksh 100,000, a golden ring valued at Ksh 150,000 and during the robbery they wounded the said Dennis Mombo.
The suspects were also charged that on the night of October 31, 2015, while at the scene of crime were unlawfully found in possession of two M-16 rifles without a firearm certificate.
They have since denied the charges and the case will proceed on November 28, 2024.
