Troubled Nakuru MP’s life in danger after slapping Police Commander

In an interesting twist, Nakuru Town East MP David Gikaria has accused police of torturing and denying him access to medical treatment following his arrest last  weekend.

Spotting a neck-brace and bandages, the MP said officers at Bondeni Police Station were on a mission to maim or kill him.

MP Gikaria was apprehended by officers from the Nakuru Directorate of Criminal Investigations,  taken to an undisclosed police station and questioned for hours.

The MP also faces assault charges for slapping a deputy sub-county police commander during the incident.

In January the same lawmaker was charged with forging land documents and grabbing parcels of land within Nakuru County between August 28 and December 18, 2007.

According to the prosecution, he and accomplices manipulated entries of dates in the green cards of eight blocks of land and replaced the names of seven residents with others.

He faced counts of land grabbing, the charge sheet stating that he unlawfully held possession of land that belonged to seven individuals within Nakuru municipality between September 28, 2007 and December 18 that year.

He made the claims even as the State failed to charge the legislator and instead directed him to appear in court on May 27 to answer to five charges of assaulting a police officer, incitement, causing disturbance at a police station, resisting arrest and forceful holding.

Gikaria was arrested on Saturday evening as he led a group of youths to raid  a site where the county government is constructing stalls.

Yesterday, he appeared before Naivasha Senior Resident Magistrate Esther Mburu as directed by the Director of Criminal Investigations.

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