A boda-boda rider helped police catch David Nzomo, the 'condemned husband' captured in a viral video battering his wife and used a simple trick to get him talking about the incident.
On Thursday morning, Amos Muthenya, a bodaboda rider in Makueni County left home for work as usual, only to end up being the lead in Nzomo's arrest.
While on his morning hustle, Muthenya spotted a man that he had never seen before.
[caption caption="Mr Nzomo appearing in Court(PHOTO/COURTESY)"]
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Muthenya, who operates in Nguu area, found the man's strange looks and attempts to hide his face as an anomaly.
His prospect customers could not behave in the manner Nzomo did as he paced Masumba-Muuwani road and his appearance drew more attention.
"On the three occasions that I rode past him during my errands in the morning, I noticed that he would avoid eye contact as I approached him,” the boda-boda operator recalls.
The curiosity kept piling up even as he sped past the stranger to Muuwani market where he stopped to alert a friend that he had seen a stranger.
They came up with a simple strategy and decided to ride back to where he had spotted the man.
"I pounced on him and when we sought to establish if he was indeed David Nzomo he responded in the affirmative,” Muthenya's friend told the Daily Nation.
It is at this point that they frogmarched Nzomo to the market where an agitated crowd came close to unleashing their anger on him.
Muthenya's intervened to rescue him from a possible lynching.
They took him to a nearby eatery and offered him some food as they sought to have him open up on why he had angrily attacked his wife in public.
“Before administrators and the police arrived, we ordered him a cup of tea and chapati at an eatery and, during the meal, he expressed his regret for assaulting his wife,” stated Mr Muthenya.
After the emergence of the video, police bosses asked locals to be on the lookout to aid his arrest.
Appearing before Makueni Law Courts, Nzomo pleaded guilty to the charges on the filmed assault.
He will be remanded until August 8, 2018, awaiting his sentencing.
[caption caption="A snippet from the video showing Nzomo beating his wife(COURTESY)"]
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