Rashid Ahmed Asks Court To Stop His Prosecution
Pangani-based police officer Rashid Ahmed has today filed a petition with the High Court asking it to halt the state's prosecution of him for the killing of two teenagers.
Lydia Kadima 
Ahmed asks the High court in Millimani to issue orders prohibiting the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA), and Inspector General of Police from launching his murder case the following week on December 8 while his case is being heard.
Ahmed filed the application under a certificate of urgency. Rashid claims in court documents that the Independent Police Oversight Authority's decision to summon him to answer the allegations is motivated by ill will and a "well-choreographed scheme to fix him without any lawful basis."
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) confirmed the charges against Rashid, possibly the most dreaded person in Eastleigh and Mathare, and he will be prosecuted for the two victims' deaths.
Inquiries into the shootings of Jamal Mohamed and Mohamed Dahir Kheri were opened by the IPOA as a result of a shooting that took place on March 31, 2017, in Eastleigh, Nairobi County.
“IPOA established that the fatalities were occasioned by police action. Guided by Section 29 (a) of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority Act, the findings were forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions with the recommendation to charge Corporal Ahmed Rashid, with murder,” the IPOA chairperson Ann Makori said.
“The ODPP, after independently interrogating the case file upheld IPOA’s findings that there is sufficient evidence to charge the officer with the offence of murder contrary to section 203 as read with section 204 of the Penal Code,” Makori added.
