A 26-year-old city girl who allegedly hurled insults at police officers and dared them to shoot her after she was found passionately kissing her lover inside a car will serve a six months’ jail term if she fails to pay a fine of Sh20,000.
The lady, identified as Tabby Ndung’u, according to a police report, was found kissing a man passionately inside a car that had been carelessly stopped in the middle of the busy road. The incident occurred near Thika Road Mall (TRM).
The offenses
Tabby Ndung’u was sentenced by Makadara Chief Magistrate Francis Kyambia. This was after she pleaded guilty to charges of creating disturbance. And offensive conduct at the Thika Road Mall (TRM) Drive in Kasarani, Nairobi on January 24, 2023.
The court heard that two officers were on patrol when they found a motorist who had stopped in the middle of the road, causing obstruction to other motorists. So the officers approached the car and found Ms Ndung’u and a man who was on the driver’s seat kissing passionately and ordered the couple to drive on to ease traffic.
But angered by their interference, Ms Ndung’u alighted from the vehicle and started insulting the officers
As a result, the two male officers could not arrest her because they did not have a female colleague and reported the matter at Kasarani Police Station. Other female officers from the police station proceeded to the scene and arrested Ms Ndung’u.
Ms Ndung’u, who is a businesswoman in Kasarani, admitted to creating a disturbance in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace contrary to section 95 (1) (b) of the penal code after repeatedly shouting “shoot me” at two Administration Police Service officers.
The magistrate ordered her to pay Ksh. 10,000 as a fine for each of the charges against her or serve six months in jail.
By Wanjiru Mbaru