When suspects appear in court, they are usually quiet, calm and tentative.
But a suspect at a Kibera court was the contrast, instead quarrelling the magistrate and the clerk. This is after he was informed that the magistrate who was hearing his case had been transferred.
"Will you proceed with the case or we start it afresh?” the clerk asked.
In a rejoinder, the suspect said he should stop joking.”I have already finished with the doctor. I don’t want such jokes. Sitaki hiyo ujinga mumezoea kuchezea watu!” he shouted.
Surprised by the reaction, Kibera senior resident magistrate Charles Mwaniki asked him, “Was it an offence to ask you the question?”But the suspect insisted he wouldn’t take “such jokes” with his case.
The magistrate asked him to get out and relax.On returning, Mwaniki said his case would proceed on October 8. The suspect would hear none of it, saying his case, which has dragged on since 2016, had to end there and then. He demanded the file be closed. The case will proceed on October 8.