Grace Njoki, one of the women who stormed Health Cabinet Secretary Dr. Deborah Barasa’s press briefing at Afya House last week, has been arrested for causing disturbance.
Njoki, who is being held at Capitol Hill Police Station, formerly Nairobi Area, was arrested while she sought medical services at a hospital in Eastleigh.
The 61-year-old woman’s son George Mulei had earlier sent out an alert claiming his mother was abducted while applying for knee surgery at the Ladnan Hospital.
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“During the application she called me while frantically shouting that individuals identifying themselves as DCI officers had ‘come for her.’ I immediately rushed to Ladnan Hospital, but upon arrival, we were informed that she has already been ‘taken.’ We do not know her current whereabouts,” George stated in his alert to newsrooms.
Speaking in a subsequent interview with Citizen TV, he disclosed that his mother has pressing medical issues that are likely to spiral with the trauma of her unprecedented arrest and subsequent mistreatment by police officers.
“My mum is hypertensive, she’s diabetic and she has a heart condition. So basically, even the trauma this event is having on her right now, I don’t even know her state. I just want my mum safe and released, and for us to be told the charges because what normally happens is that she needs to have her day in court…but the way they manhandled her, because we have seen footage, and we really thank Ladnan Hospital for also helping us because they really tried to intervene but these people were really violent,” George said.
