Addictions can truly nail a man on the head. The reputation of a top Kenyan lawyer has once again hung in the air after indulging in his favorite hobby carelessly and was unfortunately caught by the long arms of the law he defends.
Human rights lawyer Harun Ndubi known to love the bottle was on Monday charged with careless driving and failing to obey verbal directives given by a police officer by declining to blow into a breathalyzer.
Appearing before Magistrate Elector Riany, the advocate denied all the charges and was released on a Sh80,000 cash bail.
The charge sheet indicated that he (Ndubi) on February 3, 2019 at about 6:30p.m along Lang’ata road drove on a public road without due care and attention to other road users by failing to give way and hitting a police motorcycle thereby damaging it and causing injury to the officer.
He hit the officer while trying to flee the scene of incident.
Not a stranger to the traffic court, the city advocate was in February 2018 arrested for drunk driving. His allies argued that he had been drugged prior to the incident.
This is the second time in one year Mr Harun has been arrested for drunk driving. Back in February 2018 his friends claimed that he was drugged, allegations that were dismissed by investigators.