Ian Njoroge’s mother Nyambura Mbagara has revealed how he was triggered to assault a traffic cop.
On the fateful day, Ian was heading home to return her car and also take his siblings to church, when he made an illegal Uturn
The traffic cop accosted him demanding for a Kshs10,000 bribe, which Ian, a university student couldn’t raise.
“I was surprised because I have brought my son in a Christian way. He is a boy who has gone to good schools, has grown with manners, is God-fearing, obedient, very polite at home…I have never seen him agitated. Something must have happened to that boy.”
“I asked him why, he told me he wanted to bring the car back home before the time for going to church, and on his way he met the policeman. It’s true he made a U-turn, the policeman said he wanted Ksh.10,000, and he told him he couldn’t raise that because he’s a student and that was his mother’s car. He told him he could raise Ksh.5,000, but the policeman refused,” Mbagara shared.
She further revealed that the police came for the 19-year old at her home.
“I was heartbroken when I came home from a business trip that night and all I saw was Flying Squad cars outside my gate. In shock, I went inside and found policemen folding my boy down and when I asked why, they showed me a video and told me your boy is a murderer and a robber, that he wanted to kill that man…that the man was in the ICU because of what he (Ian) did,” she recalled.
She went ahead to apologize for her son’s mistake adding that she had since talked about that with him.
“He was not supposed to beat that man, I already told him that was wrong,” the hurting mother said.
Ian was arraigned in court on Tuesday where he denied charges levelled against him.
