By Antynet Ford
Former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko has been acquitted in another case after the complainant withdrew the case.
Kiambu Law court marked the case the case closed after the prosecution notified them.
The prosecutor notified the court that they did not object to the complainants’ application to withdraw the case.
“From complaint number one all the way to number 10, the application to have the matter withdrawn reasons advance which has not been opposed, I allow the same as prayed. I have also discharged the accused’s surety. The matter is marked closed.” Senior Principal Magistrate Peter Ooko pronounced.
Sonko had been charged with various counts of assault and forcible entry of property in Buruburu Phase Four.
Sonko was first arraigned before the court in 2021, where he faced one charge of forcible entry and nine counts of assault causing bodily harm.
Then, he was charged that on May 25, 2019, at 2 pm at Buruburu Phase Four, in Kamukunji, jointly with others not before court forcibly and violently entered into land number LR Nairobi block 78/8, the property of Landmark International Properties.
He faced other counts of assault causing actual bodily harm.
It was alleged that on the same day in May 2019, he led a group of men and assaulted some nine men, thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm.
The court heard that Sonko left his office at City Hall while he was the Nairobi Governor and proceeded to Buruburu Phase Four while accompanied by youths who under his utterances caused the commission of the offenses.
He, however, denied the charges and was released on a Sh300,000 bond with a surety of the same amount.
Monday’s win comes a month after Sonko and 16 others were acquitted in a case relating to alleged misappropriation of funds amounting to Sh357 million belonging to the Nairobi county government.
