A Nakuru court has acquitted Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri of charges of assaulting a traffic police woman in Nakuru’s Kenyatta Avenue last year.
Senior principal magistrate Felix Kombo said the complainant had since reconciled with the accused and was not willing to pursue the matter further, prompting the court to drop the charges against the accused.
The legislator, who was out on a Sh500,000 bond, had been charged with traffic offences which he allegedly committed in Nakuru’s Kenyatta Avenue at town centre and charges of contravening of the National Police Service Act.
He had been charged with driving a defective vehicle, failing to obey verbal instructions from a uniformed police officer and living the vehicle at a place not designated for parking.
However, the TNA MP was on December last year acquitted of three traffic offences he was facing by Nakuru Resident Magistrate Rita Amwayi on grounds that the prosecution had failed to prove that he was either the driver or the owner of the said vehicle.
The lawmaker has since been fighting charges of resisting arrest and causing bodily harm to the officer, charges he denied when he appeared in court on August, 2013 to take a plea.
The complainant (Maria Mutheu), who was present in court, agreed to have the matter withdrawn, saying she had no interest of pursuing the matter further and had resolved the matter with the legislator.
The lawmaker had earlier been granted an adjournment of the case by the court, to allow him more time to obtain files of three traffic offences related to the incident which were concluded before a Nakuru court last December arguing that they were crucial in the case.
In the past the prosecution decried the security of its witnesses and even at one time requested the court to grant them an opportunity to have some of them testify in camera.