A Nairobi-based Dutchman has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Inspector General of Police over harassment by his estranged Kenyan wife.
Tob Cohen, the CEO of Tobs Company accuses his estranged Kenyan wife of using police and the justice system to harass and intimidate him.
Cohen has written a letter to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji and Inspector General of police over an attempted abuse of the criminal justice system by Sarah Wairimu Kamotho.
“Unless your offices act speedily and accordingly, our client will continue to suffer humiliation, discrimination and persecution because he is not a Kenyan national, which is wrong, distasteful and unfortunate,” said his lawyer Danston Omari.
“On February 5, 2019 Sarah Wairimu Kamotho stormed in our client’s home office, and threw a glass of water aimed at the face of our client and screamed that, ’DO NOT THINK THIS IS ALL.THIS IS NOT OVER,” said Omari.
He added that on February 8, 2019 Cohen buried the hatchet and decided to let bygones be bygones after Wairimu approached him and offered him whisky.
“Around midnight, as he was standing on top of the stairs leading to the garden, Sarah suddenly pushed him down stairs, causing our client to fall and seriously injure his forehead,” said Omari.
It is said that while he was lying helplessly on the floor bleeding profusely, Wairimu pounced on him and pushed his head against the ground and kicked his helpless temple.
He says he was treated and later reported the matter at Parklands Police Station but that Wairimu filed a report at Gigiri police station claiming to be the one who was assaulted.
Cohen also claims that his partner Sarah Wairimu is colluding with some government officers to illegally deport him so that she can take over his vast estate.
“There has been a curious excitement to have our client prosecuted for allegedly assaulting her despite insufficiency of evidence, which intended prosecution is aimed not only at soiling his reputation but also having him deported from Kenya so that his properties become free and available to Sarah Wairimu Kamotho and her accomplices,” Cohen’s lawyer Danstan Omari says.
Cohen says Wairimu is using all means in an attempt to inherit his properties after he filed for divorce early this year.
Cohen, 69, has lived in Kenya since 1987 and married Wairimu in 2007 but soon after, their marriage became rocky after she began demanding a 50 percent stake of his property.
“The said Sarah Wairimu Kamotho has expressly been disrespectful to our client by being scornful and by use of emotional blackmail well demonstrated by the denial of our client’s conjugal rights,” the letter reads in part.
“That our client is astonished at the discriminatory manner in which the law is being applied to his disadvantage since no step has been taken by police officers at the Parklands police station to prosecute Wairimu despite a preponderance of evidence demonstrating her guilt, yet the same law enforcers are keen on prosecuting our innocent client.”
Cohen says he will continue to suffer humiliation, discrimination, and persecution if the DPP and IG fail to take action.