{Workshop manager alleged to have tortured a driver be charged with attempted murder.}
A workshop manager alleged to have tortured a driver by putting a tyre around him and setting him on fire will be charged with attempted murder.
Also to be put on the dock are two security guards said to have manhandled Mr Isaac Njoroge before taking him to a yard where he was tortured, said Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Alexander Muteti.
“I have officially ordered the arrest of the workshop manager and the two guards, who will face charges of attempted murder,” Mr Muteti told the Daily Nation on the telephone on Tuesday.
“The guards are the ones who tied up the driver. I have the file and it is on my desk. I have gone through it and the order is our final decision.”
The torture allegedly happened at PN Mashru, one of the biggest road transport companies in the country. It runs a fleet of buses and trucks.
Mr Njoroge has alleged that a supervisor at PN Mashru, his former employer, and two security guards manhandled and pushed him into a vehicle and then drove him to a yard where they tortured him.
SOCIAL MEDIA PROTEST
The investigation file was submitted to the office of the DPP last week, after police recorded statements of all the witnesses following a storm of social media protest from Kenyans and human rights activists demanding action against the culprits.
On Tuesday, Mr Njoroge said: “I will pursue this matter so that justice can be served.
“I have gone through hell because of a company in which I worked for almost four years.”
The firm had accused Mr Njoroge of stealing aluminium coils worth Sh7 million, for which he was charged and released on a Sh100,000 bond as the case continues.
The Daily Nation exclusively reported the story a week ago, accompanied with a secretly recorded video which attracted more than 500,000 views on social media.
The company has, however, dismissed the clip, which does not show Mr Njoroge being burnt.
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