A woman who was arrested on trumped-up charges of alleged “obstruction of justice” will not be charged after all.
Sophia Njeri was arrested Tuesday as she was recording police brutality meted on a lady passenger.
Police had impounded a minibus and demanded the lady should give up er seat for a police officer to escort Kasarani Police station.
A scuffle ensued when the lady wouldn’t budge to the officers’s demands. All the while, Sophia Njeri was at the rear seat of the mini-bus taking her sweet time to record the injustice.
Alarmed, the officers quickly jumped into the car to arrest Sophia.
Njeri at Kasarani Police station.@NPSOfficial_KE want to charge her with incitement. @PoliceKE way of silencing Kenyans from recording rogue Officers.
@ODPP_KE#ReleaseNjeri pic.twitter.com/dCMJn8ZfvX— #BuyerBeware (@JacksonNjeru254) February 5, 2019
While on dispatch to Kasarani Poilce station, Sophia posted the video online. Within minutes, Sophia’s predicament had become the centre of a fierce online discussion both on Twitter and Facebook.
Under the banner #ReleaseNjeri, police finally succumbed and released her on a Sh 10,000 cash bail.
Over and Out
Appearing at the Makadara Law Courts Friday, the prosecution, the woman did not commit any crime, hence would not be charged. The DPP rejected the file in its entirety and recalled it forthwith, much to the praise from Kenyans on Twitter code-named #KoT