This archive report was first published on 29 June 2020.
Published on June 29, 2020, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has appealed the acquittal of Joshua Waiganjo, a man accused of impersonating a police officer, and two senior police officers.
Waiganjo, along with former Rift Valley provincial police officer John M'mbijiwe and the late Anti-Stock Theft Unit commander Remi Ngugi, was acquitted last week after seven years in jail.
According to court records, Waiganjo posed as an Assistant Commissioner of Police and attended security meetings in the Rift Valley region, even flying in a police helicopter alongside other senior police officers.
The DPP's office tweeted that an appeal has been filed in the High Court in Nakuru against the acquittal of Waiganjo and the two police officers.
Waiganjo had been involved in police work in the Rift Valley region during the period he posed as a police officer, until November 2012 when he accompanied senior police officers on a chopper during an operation in Suguta valley.
After his acquittal, Waiganjo said, "I said before that justice will be my shield and defender and true to the word of God it has come to pass, we have been vindicated by court, we have got no case to answer. This was a framed case, but the court has said it all."
