Ian Njoroge, a man that was arrested after going viral in a video beating a police officer has been produced in Milimani Law Court to answer charges.
According to reports by his lawyer, Duncan Okatch, Njoroge will be charged with robbery with violence, assault causing grievous bodily harm and resisting arrest.
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However, the defense is ready to fight the battle in which Ian Njoroge claims that he was forced to act the way he did after the police officer demanded a huge bribe and refused to reason with their client.
According to the lawyer Duncan Oketch, the defense will first seek to ask the court to grant his client cash bail since he is a student to prevent any alter with his class work.
However, the prosecution is also ready and will seek to detain Ian Njoroge who clearly “posses a threat to himself and those around him” due to his anger management issues.
According to Njoroge, the weekend action happened out of anger due to the engagements they had with the said officer but claimed he had never been in any situation similar to that one.
The Nairobi based Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) traced Ian Njoroge on Sunday to his hideout in Jacaranda area of Kayole, Nairobi where he allegedly was in a girlfriend’s place after beating the officer.
Kenyans online have however expressed mixed reactions to Ian Njoroge’s actions with some claiming that the police have done worse to civilians while on duty. Others claim that the officer was demanding for bribes and he deserves it.
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However other kenyans have called out Ian Njoroge claiming that beating a uniformed officer is unacceptable and barbaric and severe action should be taken against him as a lesson.