Emma Nyambura Wairimu recounted a harrowing ordeal in court, narrating how police officers allegedly forced her to strip naked and stand on a table for a search.
Testifying before Magistrate Robinson Ondieki in her defense against robbery with violence charges, Wairimu described the events surrounding her arrest on September 13, 2016. She stated that officers confined her to a room and demanded that she produce a firearm they claimed was used in a robbery.
Wairimu denied the allegations, asserting that the incident was both traumatizing and unjust.
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.
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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 alleges that on the night of October 31, 2015, at Kio Heights Apartments, house number C7, in the Lavington area of Nairobi, four suspects, armed with dangerous weapons including two M-16 rifles and a mini pistol, robbed Dennis Mombo of Ksh 80,000, a gold wristwatch valued at Ksh 100,000, and a gold ring worth Ksh 150,000. During the robbery, the suspects reportedly injured Dennis Mombo.
Additionally, the suspects face charges of unlawful possession of two M-16 rifles without a firearm certificate at the crime scene on the same night.
The accused have denied all charges, and the case is set to continue on November 28, 2024.
