Quack doctor James Ndichu Mugo alias Mugo wa Wairimu has been detained for ten more days to allow police complete investigations into the matter.
Mugo did not plead to running an unlicensed clinic amongst other charges. The prosecution asked the court for more time to allow them build a watertight case against the unpopular “doctor”.
The accused who has seen allegations of sedating and raping his female patients levelled against him claimed that the investigating officers in the case tortured him on Tuesday.
He was arrested on Tuesday November 13 by Flying Squad officers in Gachie, Kiambu County where he was lying low after being on the run for almost two weeks.
Mugo had dumped all his phones, making it impossible for the Flying Squad officers to track him via signal after they had combed Kayole, Kiambu, Dagoretti, Tena, Kasarani and Gachie in his pursuit.
The detectives finally pounced on him in Gachie where he was hiding at a relative’s house.
The manhunt for Mugo was triggered by an investigative piece aired by NTV on November 6 that exposed detestable activities he was carrying out at his unlicensed clinic in Kayole including raping them and carrying out backstreet abortions.
Mugo was also attending to patients under the influence of drugs and selling government provided medicine to unsuspecting patients at exorbitant prices.
The clinic which he was running, Milan Health Care International had already been listed as unfit for public health operations by Nairobi County officials with Mugo’s former employees saying that the quack doctor had no idea of how to operate the equipment and some of them were not functional.
NTV’s expose was the second time that Mugo hit national headlines, he first featured in an investigative piece on Citizen TV in September 2015 after a video of an unidentified doctor raping a patient presumed to be him went viral.
Following the report, incensed members of the public stormed his clinic in Githurai, Prestige Clinic but by then he had already fled to Limuru.
He had operated the clinic for five years.
On September 10 2015, he was arrested in Gitungo Hotel in Limuru while having breakfast after two Kenyans positively identified him and called the police.
In October 2015, Mugo was charged with rape, illegally administering unknown drugs, operating a pharmacist without a licence and hiring an unlicensed laboratory technologist.
He would be later released on cash bail as police said that he could not be charged with rape for lack of forensic evidence and witness statements.
