Ruth Nyambura Mbagara, mother of a 19-year-old boy who assaulted a traffic police officer, apologized and defended him.
The incident began when the boy tried to raise Ksh.5,000 through friends, but the officer refused, leading to a physical confrontation.
“I was surprised because I have brought my son in a Christian way. He is a boy who has gone to good schools, has grown with manners, is God-fearing, obedient, very polite at home…I have never seen him agitated. Something must have happened to that boy,” Ms. Mbagara told The Standard.
“I asked him why, he told me he wanted to bring the car back home before the time for going to church, and on his way he met the policeman.
It’s true he made a U-turn, the policeman said he wanted Ksh.10,000, and he told him he couldn’t raise that because he’s a student and that was his mother’s car. He told him he could raise Ksh.5,000, but the policeman refused.”
Ms. Mbagara discovered police cars at her gate and found officers physically manhandling her son, Njoroge. She acknowledged the incident but shut down media reports of Njoroge’s assault.
“I was heartbroken when I came home from a business trip that night and all I saw was Flying Squad cars outside my gate. In shock, I went inside and found policemen folding my boy down and when I asked why, they showed me a video and told me your boy is a murderer and a robber, that he wanted to kill that man…that the man was in the ICU because of what he (Ian) did,” she recalled.
“I’m speaking as a mother who has been hurting because of seeing how the boy has trended in a negative way. I want to apologise, first of all, and say what he did was not right; he was not supposed to beat that man, I already told him that was wrong.”
