Drama as Embassava Driver Beats, Bites Two Police Officers

A public service transport driver is in police custody after attacking two police officers in Nairobi.

Jared Nyanduro is accused of first attacking a traffic police officer who had flagged down an Embassava Sacco vehicle he was driving.

The officer, Jackline Naeku, established that the vehicle was operating without a valid permit to be on the road.

She got into the vehicle and directed him to drive to the Embakasi Police Station.

"Upon checking on the documents, she realised that the vehicle had no road service licence. She entered the vehicle and instructed the driver to drive the vehicle to Embakasi Police Station," partly read a police report seen by Nairobi Leo.

Nyanduro is reported to have defied the officer's directive.

He vowed not to drive to the station, warning the officer that they were going to die inside the vehicle.

The driver sped and hit a packed vehicle, and still drove on to hit flower vases near a Rubis Police Station.

The officer sustained injuries in the commotion.

As if that was not enough, Nyanduro alighted and started beating the officer, injuring her in the eye and ribs.

Naeku was rescued by members of the public who facilitated the arrest of the driver.

"She managed to come out of the vehicle and the driver followed her and started beating her with kicks and blows. She sustained some injuries on the left eye, ribs, collar bone. left leg and teeth bite on the left hand. She was rescued by members of the public before a police officer came and took the suspect to Embakasi Police Station," the police said.

At the station, Nyanduro lost his cool and advanced another attack on a officer during a search conducted on him.

He bit the officer the left hand before he was stopped by the victim's colleagues.

The injured officer, Senior Sergeant Samuel Njuguna, was hospitalised alongside Naeku as the suspect got locked up in the cell.

Nyanduro now awaits arraignment.

This would add to the many incidents in which members of the public attack uniformed law enforcement agents.

Months back, a police officer was hospitalised at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) after being attacked by protesters.

Police Constable Emily Kinya was among the officers deployed in the Nairobi City Centre to contain protesters on June 25 when a section of atrocious protesters went for her.

The officer, who had apparently isolated herself from her colleagues, was intercepted by the civilians who attacked her in the head, causing her serious injuries.

The attackers were determined to advance the offensive until a young man approached the scene and rescued her.

She was rushed to the hospital with the serious injuries; she was admitted for weeks before being discharged.