KDF officer charged with rape

KDF officer charged with rape

A Kenya Defence Forces officer attached to Lanet Barracks in Nakuru was on Monday arraigned and charged with rape.

Appearing before Senior Principal Magistrate Liz Gicheha Ochieng, Corporal Evans Ochieng Akello was accused of raping a 20-year-old Maseno University student on Thursday last week in his house at Lanet.

Akello denied the charges and was released on Sh200,000 bond or a cash bail of Sh100,000.

The case will be heard on December 10, 2015.

The suspect was arrested in his house on Friday night and spent the night in the police cells before being arraigned in court on Monday.

According to the officer commanding Lanet Police Post, John Njue, the accused returned to his house accompanied by the student after a drinking spree at Race Course in Nakuru Town, and later forced himself on her.

Njue said that the student reported the matter to the police prompting them to launch a manhunt for the officer.

 

By Simon Ngure

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