A woman has today emotionally recounted the day she was forced by police officers to strip naked and stand on top of a table to be searched for suspicion of having a gun.
Emma Nyambura Wairimu was giving her testimony before Magistrate Robinson Ondieki to defend herself against robbery with violence charges.
She is charged alongside Dishon Peter Mulinge, Gerald Mwangi and Rick James Muchai with robbery with violence.
Wairimu told court that she was arrested on September 13, 2016 and police officers locked her in a room and ordered her to produce a firearm which they alleged was used in the commission of a robbery.
It was her testimony that 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 said she told them 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.” the court heard
In the case, it is alleged that Wairimu and her co-accused robbed Dennis Mombo at gunpoint.
Charge sheets states that on the night on October 31, 2015 at Kio Heights Apartments house number C7, in Laving ton area within Nairobi, armed with dangerous weapons namely two M-16 rifles and a mini pistol robbed Dennis Mombo Ksh 80,000, a golden wrist watch 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.
The case will proceed on November 28, 2024.
