Kenya: Keiyo Ex-MP in Trouble for Attacking Eldoret Newsman

23 January 2014

Former Keiyo North MP Lucas Chepkitonyi attacked a journalist in Eldoret after he was charged in a court with traffic offences. Ckepkitonyi was rearrested in the traffic mobile court after he attacked a journalist Peter Ochieng of the Standard Newspaper who was taking his photographs.

Resident magistrate Barnabas Kiptoo had fined Chepkitony Sh20,000 for speeding. While on his way out of the court, Chepkitonyi hit Ochieng's camera in anger to stop him from taking his pictures. He hit the camera three times as the magistrate watched.

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