Presidential candidate charged with attempted suicide

Presidential candidate charged with attempted suicide

Independent presidential hopeful Peter Solomon Gichira has been freed on a Sh200,o00 cash bail after pleading not guilty to three charges of attempted suicide, malicious damage to property and creating disturbance.

Gichira denied the charges before Milimani Law Courts Magistrate Francis Andayi and the case has been set for hearing on June 15, 2017.

The political debutant spent two days at Central Police Station in Nairobi after being arrested on Saturday, May 27, at IEBC headquarters in Anniversary Towers for allegedly attempting to commit suicide by jumping off from the building’s sixth floor.

Gichira was further accused of damaging installations at the IEBC offices worth Sh30, 000 following a confrontation with the electoral commission’s staff after being denied audience with electoral agency’s chairman Wafula Chebukati.

The presidential aspirant had gone to the IEBC offices demanding answers as to why the commission demanded a list of 48, 000 signatures of registered voters from independent candidates despite successfully obtaining a court order suspending that clause of the elections act.

His running mate, Kelly Watima, faulted the electoral commission for allegedly fabricating accusations aimed at locking them out of the presidential race.

Gichira was among seven presidential aspirants axed from the final list of candidates required to present their nominations papers to IEBC for approval.

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