Police have locked up Pastor James Ng’ang’a, who faces four charges over a road crash that claimed a woman’s life on July 26, as his lawyers moved to the High Court to block his prosecution. The head of the Neno Evangelism Centre in Nairobi was thrown into the cells at Gigiri Police Station yesterday afternoon.
Pastor James Ng’ang’a was locked up at Gigiri police station.
Police picked him up at Serena Hotel in Nairobi and drove him to Traffic Headquarters where he was interrogated before being taken to Gigiri. Before his arrest, the preacher had Wednesday morning asked the High Court to block his prosecution. The court allowed his lawyers, Mr Cliff Ombeta and Mr Assa Nyakundi, to file the petition and serve the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Inspector-General of police.
The three parties are expected back in court today for hearing. The DPP Keriako Tobiko on Tuesday gave the green light to prosecute Mr Ng’ang’a for allegedly causing death by dangerous driving and giving false information.
He will be charged alongside two senior police officers for giving false information with the aim of shielding the pastor from prosecution and have someone else take the blame for the crash. But the preacher states that he is a victim of public vilification and may not get the protection he is constitutionally entitled to.
“The petitioner has been tried by the press… he has been subjected to intense and prejudicial public comments and assessment to a degree that any intended trial will not be fair,” the lawyers told Justice Weldon Korir at the Milimani law courts yesterday. (Business Daily)
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