Update: Mike Sonko was reportedly taken to court via a hospital ambulance after he was admitted on Tuesday morning, February 9. His lawyer, Cliff Ombeta told K24.
He added that said that the ambulance was equipped with a doctor and a nurse who took care of the former governor. The equipment therein were also capable of handling whatever medical issues that would arise. He alleged that Sonko suffered from high blood pressure.
DCI detectives claimed that Sonko’s condition was not critical enough to force the court to suspend his hearing.
Ombeta said that the ambulance came equipped with a doctor and a nurse who are capable of handling whatever medical issues that may arise since Sonko is suffering from several ailments, including high blood pressure.
Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has been rushed to hospital on Tuesday morning, February 9 prior to his arraignment at Kiambu Law Courts, where he is expected to answer to assault and robbery with violence charges.
Sonko's lawyer, John Khaminwa, said that Sonko has been admitted at the Nairobi Hospital.
He declined to disclose the details of the illness. However, other sources claimed that the former Makadara MP had developed stomach complications.
Khaminwa added that they would try their best to ensure Sonko honours court sessions as the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said that they were waiting for him to be presented in Kiambu.
Sonko will also be arraigned at the Kahawa West Law Courts in Kamiti later today, Tuesday, to answer to terror-related charges. DCI claimed that he was financing the purchase of firearms and was a leader of a secret militant group.
The state prosecutor asked that the court allows Sonko's detention for 30 days to finalise the investigations.
Detectives are also racing against time to provide evidence in another case where he was accused of fraud. State prosecutors alleged that he demanded Ksh10 million from a Nairobi company in a flawed tender process. The firm was bidding to secure a contract to collect revenue in the county.
The former governor was also accused of invading private property in May 2019 and assaulted civilians in Buruburu estate. Sonko denied all the charges.
Sonko had lamented that his life was in danger and alleged that an unknown assailant had attempted to poison him through an injection while he was in jail.
Through his lawyers, John Khaminwa, Assa Nyakundi, and Wilfred Nyamu, Sonko said that he was being tortured psychologically by some of the police officers, who reportedly made him sleep on the floor at Gigiri Police Station.
The court denied him bail after the prosecution said that he was a flight risk and would tamper with evidence and witnesses. They claimed that Sonko once escaped Shimo la Tewa Prison in 1998.
