The High Court in Nairobi has ordered police sergeant Ahmed Rashid to surrender himself to police who will escort him to Nairobi in order to undertake a psychiatric assessment.
Issuing the order on Thursday, January 26, Justice Kanyi Kimondo asked Rashid to surrender himself to Garissa Directorate of Criminal Investigations Office after the cop who is facing murder charges joined court proceedings through digital platform.
When asked why he wasn’t physically present to face the murder charges against him, Rashid said he was out of Nairobi and in Garissa to attend to a family issue in Garissa.
Justice Kanyi further ordered that Rashid will be freely granted a bail by police after he surrenders himself.
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The case against Rashid has been deferred to February 9 in order to give police more time to present him in court.
Rashid, a police sergeant shot to the public limelight for running an infamous team of six plainclothes police officers accused of carrying out extra judicial killings in Eastleigh, Pangani and Mathare slums.
However, his reign of terror came to an end when the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) instigated murder charges against him. Anne Makori, IPOA’s chairperson had Rashid charged with the murder of two of his suspected victims Jamal Mohamed and Mohamed Dhai Kheri.
The two teenagers were shot in broad daylight back in 2017 as they pled for their dear lives in Eastleigh.
“The Independent Policing Oversight Authority concluded the investigation into the deaths of Mr Jamal Mohamed and Mr Mohamed Dahir Kheri following a shooting which occurred at Eastleigh, Nairobi County on March 31, 2017, and established that the fatalities were occasioned by police action,” IPOA chairperson Anne Makori said.
