The driver who ran over ex-Kitui mayor Martha Mwangangi should be examined to determine if he is mentally stable, a judge has ordered.
Mwangangi was on Friday, December 16, 2016 crushed to death by a fire engine during a protest by Kalundu Market traders in Kitui Town.
Former Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Charity Ngilu, who had accompanied the late Mwangangi to sympathise with the traders escaped being hit by the fire engine by inches after she was shoved aside by her bodyguard.
State counsel in the case, Margaret Maeiru, had requested the court to allow the accused, Philip Isika Tito, to undergo a mental examination to determine if he is mentally fit.
Tito will remain in police custody until January 12 as he awaits to be arraigned in court to take plea.