Saturday, January 25, 2025 – Grace Njoki, 61, has opened up about what she went through at the hands of the police after being arrested on Thursday for storming Health Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa’s presser on Monday and exposing failures by the Social Health Authority (SHA).
Addressing journalists yesterday
moments after being released on a Ksh10,000 bail, Njoki accused the police of
violating her rights by arresting her without a reason.
While narrating the tribulation
she underwent at the hands of the officers, Njoki claimed that she was
arrested while seeking treatment at Ladnan Hospital in
Nairobi.
She recalled sitting in the hospital room when she spotted a mysterious man trailing her. She revealed that the man had followed her from Kenyatta Hospital to Ladnan Hospital.
According to Njoki, moments
after spotting the man, two people, a man and a woman approached her and told
her to surrender or face arrest.
“I asked them why they were arresting me and where they were taking me but they refused to tell me.
"They
told me they were not arresting me,” Njoki narrated.
Upon realising the
well-orchestrated scheme to apprehend her, Njoki disclosed that she immediately
informed her son and husband about the incident.
However, the armed officers
quickly took away her phone and barred her from reaching out to any of her
family members and her lawyers.
Njoki said that despite attempts
by health workers in the hospital to intervene, about 20 police officers she
claimed were from Pangani Police Station forcefully took her away.
“I was carried away by force out
of the hospital where I had gone to receive treatment. I was dragged, pinched
and bullied. All through they never told me the reason for the arrest,” Njoki
lamented.
“They insisted that I should
write a statement but they had not told me anything. All through that time, I
felt threatened because I suffered from a heart attack.”
Njoki revealed that after the arrest, the officers took her to three different buildings before being taken to Capital Hill Police Station, where she spent the night awaiting her arraignment.
The Kenyan DAILY POST.
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