This archive report was first published on 14 May 2020.
On March 18, 2019, at approximately 4pm, a matatu driver, George Nginya Muigai, stopped his vehicle in the middle of Komarock road in Dandora, blocking other motorists, including officers on patrol in a police truck.
According to the prosecution, Muigai was driving his minibus (reg no KBZ 540G) to a garage in Kayole after it developed some mechanical problems, but he claimed he was stopping to allow some goats to cross the road along Outering road near Kiamaiko market.
However, the prosecution's witnesses, police constables Phares Ekwenyi and Samuel Macharia Mwangi, testified that Muigai was not dropping or picking any passengers and that there were no goats crossing the road at the time of the arrest.
Senior Resident Magistrate Lewis Gatheru of the Makadara Law Courts found Muigai guilty of causing obstruction and convicted him on Wednesday.
Muigai was arrested by Chief Inspector Samir Yunus, the then Dandora Police Station commander, and his vehicle was impounded.
Magistrate Gatheru will sentence Muigai on June 19, 2020, and the cash bail paid by the Sacco chairman will remain his security until he is eventually fined.
