A police commander was on March 3, 2020, summoned over what Makadara Court Chief Magistrate Heston Nyaga suspected was torture.
The suspect, David Onyango Owino who was accused of three different crimes appeared before the jurist holding one of the teeth missing from his mouth.
He had been arrested for allegedly trafficking bhang at Machakos Country Bus in Nairobi and was remanded at Kamukunji Police Station where he claimed the police tortured him and removed his teeth.
He told the court that at the station, the officers roughed him up until he bled.
This confession made Magistrate Nyaga allow the suspect not to take a plea, postponing until he had received treatment. The jurist further summoned Kamukunji Police Station Commander Samir Yunus.
David and his co-accused are expected to take a plea on Wednesday, March 4, 2020.
Onyango had been arrested with 15 rolls of bhang by Inspector Peter Njoroge and Corporal Nelson Wambua on Monday, March 2, 2020.
The judged charged Onyango with three accounts of trafficking narcotics, being in possession of 15 rolls of bhang and resisting arrest.
The bhang, as police say, was not in the proper medical form. He had resisted the arrest by the two officers who were duly executing their duties as required by law.
