Man hit by bullet yet to get Sh1.5m award

Samuel Gitahi who hails from Laikipia points at a wound he sustained after he was mistakenly shot by a police officer

A man’s noble response to a distress call left him with permanent injuries even as he pursues compensation in the corridors of justice. Samuel Gitahi, whose shoulder was shuttered by a bullet fired by an Administration Police officer ten years ago in Laikipia County, has sued Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho for failing to pay Sh1.5 million awarded to him by the magistrate’s court in Nyahururu last year.

In the Judicial Review application filed at the High Court, he wants the court to compel Mr Kibicho to pay the Sh1,561,507 plus the cost he incurred in the case and interest accrued from December 12, 2016.