A magistrate has ordered Ipoa to investigate claims that former Ruaraka police station boss Nahashon Mutua who is facing murder charges in the High Court is threatening a key witness.
At the High Court the former OCS is charged with the murder of Martin Koome on the night of
December 19, 2013 at Ruaraka police station. It is alleged that he accosted the suspect using a blunt object.
Milimani chief magistrate Francis Andayi
made the orders after Victor Kioko, a former nurse at Kenyatta National Hospital, said his life is in danger. Kioko was in the cells when the murder was committed.
He has been receiving threatening messages not to testify in the murder case and to withdraw the assault case he filed through Ipoa against Mutua.
“According to the claims by the suspect, he was being kidnapped and after that he has been brought under a charge of impersonation by the police,” said the magistrate.
Andayi referred the accused to Ipoa to deal with the allegations.
He made an order that the Milimani police chief should escort Kioko to the Witness Protection Unit to evaluate his suitability and a report tabled this morning.
“My life is in danger and l have been receiving several threatening messages from the former OCS, his cousin and his friends, well known to me,” the former nurse said.
Meanwhile, Kioko was arraigned in court
yesterday over impersonating a police officer, a charge he denied.
He said on Saturday at around 10am while walking to Central police station he was confronted
by two people, among them Mutua’s cousin identify only as Kimani who is said to be an AP officer.
Kioko
was to be bundled in a waiting vehicle but he was saved by University of Nairobi students who questioned why they were arresting him. They blocked the two from throwing him in the vehicle, instead of taking him to Central police station.
He was later escorted to the police station and put in the cells. Kioko has filed seven complaints with Ipoa over the alleged
threats of his
life.
He told the court that due to constant threats he has quit his job as a nurse and fled out of Nairobi county.