A section of Taita Taveta residents were left in shock after a senior County official was on Wednesday arraigned in a Voi court for allegedly attempting to rape an 11-year-old girl.
Appearing before Chief Magistrate Ellen Nderitu, the accused; Eric Ochieng, who is a principal administrator at the county government, was accused of attempting to rape the girl at his house in Voi town on March 9, 2019.
The court was told that Ochieng’ lured the girl into his house where he allegedly showed her his manhood.
He denied the charges and was released on a cash bail of Ksh.200,000 or Ksh.500,000 with a surety of a similar amount.
The case was set for mention on April 17, 2019 with the hearing due on May 5, 2019.
In the meantime, police on Wednesday morning were forced to shoot and kill three suspected thugs in a botched robbery in Lucky Summer area, Nairobi.
The three, according to the police, had broken into an apartment in the area armed with crude weapons and started terrorising the tenants.
Police on patrol responded to the tenants’s distress call and shot three suspects while two of their accomplices escaped on foot.
An assortment of household goods were recovered from the slain suspects.
In the Coast, seventeen members of the outlawed Mombasa Republic Council aged between 41 years and 84 yeas were arrested Tuesday morning in Diani.
The suspects were nabbed as they assembled at a house in Kibundani area. Membership registers and contributions confiscated-to be arraigned before Kwale Law Courts tomorrow.