Activist Boniface Mwangi has publicly decried over allegedly being assaulted and robbed by Police officers.

”I got my first black eye at the age of 41 at the hands of a drunk officer,” he alleged.

While narrating the incident, Mwangi claims three officers got into their Sema Ukweli office at around 9:30 pm on 2nd April, 2025, claiming they were responding to an alleged noise complaint.

He claims one Constable, who was allegedly drunk and chewing miraa, started roughing them up as soon as he got into the office.

“I tried to ask the senior officer at the scene, why the Constable was working and carrying a firearm while intoxicated and chewing miraa. That’s when all hell broke loose, and a scuffle ensued. The Constable tried cocking his gun to shoot me but one of my colleagues pushed his gun away. The three police officers then handcuffed and dragged me out of my office, while assaulting me,” Mwangi partly narrated.

According to him, it is during the scuffle that the officer allegedly pulled him so hard that the handcuffs wounded his hands and wrists until they came off and fell to the ground.

He says none of the officers bothered to pick up the handcuffs noting one of his colleagues picked them and they still have them.

“As they violently loaded me into the police vehicle, right in front of my colleagues and neighbours, the Constable hit me very hard on the ribs with the butt of his gun. After we arrived at the police station, and l was thrown into the police cell, the constable followed me inside and assaulted me some more. He rained blows on me as another fellow officer held me down. It was only my screams that saved me because my colleagues who had followed the police car started screaming at the police officers, demanding that they stop beating me.”He continued.

In the early morning hours of 3rd April, 2025, Boniface Mwangi notes that Kilimani OCS, Albert Chebii, found him writhing in pain and ordered that he be taken to the hospital.

“I was driven to Nairobi Hospital under armed escort and immediately put on pain medication after arrival. l underwent a few procedures, including x-rays to check my ribs, a head scan, and an ultrasound to check for internal injuries that I might have sustained in the cells when the constable punched my body where my kidneys are located.”

“Luckily, I had no fractures. I sustained injuries on my wrists, knee, had a busted lip, and had a lot of pain on my left ribs where the Constable had hit me with a gun butt. I could also barely see through my left eye.”

After his discharge, Mwangi points out that he got escorted back to Kilimani Police Station where he narrated the encounter to the OCS and was released on a Ksh 5,000 police bond.

He alleges the officers confisicated his watch and airpods during the messy arrest.

Additionally he states that despite the ordeal, the officer pressed “offensive conduct and assault” charges against him.

“The police begged me not to post about the assault, but it was a ploy to victimise me,” he concluded adding that he is expected at Kibera Law Courts to answer the charges.