The High Court in Nairobi has postponed the plea taking of policeman Ahmed Rashid to March 3.
In a Wednesday, February 8 ruling, Justice Kanyi Kimondo deferred the plea that was scheduled for Thursday pending his ruling on whether or not the prosecution should proceed with the case.
This is after the court heard the application by the crime buster challenging his prosecution.
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In January, Rashid through his legal team told the court that he was not on the run.
This is after he joined the virtual court from Garissa county and not Nairobi as the prosecution expected.
During the court proceedings, Rashid to surrender himself to police who will escort him to Nairobi in order to undertake a psychiatric assessment.
Justice Kanyi further ordered that Rashid will be freely granted a bail by police after he surrenders himself.
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.