Former Laikipia North Member of Parliament Matthew Lempurkel has been sentenced to one year in jail.
This is after the court found guilty of assault, causing actual bodily harm, contrary to Section 251 of the Penal Code.
This is after he was accused of slapping and kicking her colleague and successor, Sarah Korere, in 2016.
He was sentenced to one year in jail with no option of a fine.
Senior Principal Magistrate Hellen Onkwani while delivering the judgement considered that Lempurkel was a first time offender.
She observed that there had been a rise in cases of assault in the country and stressed that brutality against women must be wiped out in the society.
“I note from the mitigation record that the accused is a leader who needs to be a good example to others so I proceed to sentence the accused person serve one year imprisonment,” Justice Onkwani ruled.
The former MP was convicted after the court ruled that the Prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt the assault charges against him.
In addition, the court ruled Lempurkel had a right to appeal within 14 days.
Lempurkel was on November 22, 2016 arrested outside Parliament buildings just a day after the incident and was taken to the Kileleshwa Police Station.
Through his advocate, however, the former MP objected saying the allegations were malicious and brought to court in bad faith in a bid to humiliate and intimidate him.
He would later be released on a Ksh100,000 cash bail or a bond of Ksh200,000 with a surety of a similar amount as the matter proceeded to full hearing.
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nothing like Justice in Kenya's electoral body.this greediest must vacate the office
Your Comment : I have now believed that we do not have an independent electoral and boundaries commission , instead we have a congregation of greedy individuals out to misuse Kenyans and bring chaos to our country. #Remove them. #clean the top leadership.
Congratulations to Governor Mutua,you really deserve to lead in the best performing governors,,, those ranked last should be dealt with accordingly for misappropriating public funds
Raila was the hunter now the hunted... how do trust a hyena like Uhuru.. You both greedy... you dug your grave lie in it... What handshake.. Crap...
Babu aje zake,handshake is for all Kenyans, and Kibra believe in handshake, there4, Uhuru And Raila should have different candidates and whoever Will go through Will be thé product of handshake
Babu waja ukoloni bwana, there's no direct ticket
Hehehe, supporting somebody was not an agreement in the handshake my friends!! Remember Raila caused many to die during the era of maandamano hence Uhuru devised a method how to tame this power hungry man!! Mariga must win
Your Raila and uhuru come from different political party,. Everyone is free to handle his party issues and i salute the president for supporting mariga being the jubilee candidate. Raila is also supporting the odm candidate and no one is against that. Some people are taking handshake as political party while it's not. Please mr mp style up.
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