A Naivasha Court has acquitted Joshua  Waiganjo who hit the headlines eleven years ago for impersonating senior police officers.

Naivasha Chief Magistrate Nathan Lutta acquitted him of all the charges saying the prosecution failed to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt.

The magistrate noted that the prosecution had made an application to have the case withdrawn under section 87(a) but the accused declined this raising fear that he could be rearrested later on.

Lutta noted that the accused had lodged an appeal in the case through the High Court in Naivasha but moved to the Court of Appeal in 2017 after he was dissatisfied by the outcome.

The Court of Appeal in its ruling directed that the accused person be set free and the court was bound by doctrine of stare decisis and the accused is acquitted under section 210 of the CPC.

In 2013 Waiganjo was arraigned in a Naivasha court accused of impersonating senior police officers, robbery with violence and being in possession of police uniforms

The case however collapsed as some witnesses failed to appear in court while some of the evidence went missing as the case moved from one court to another.

In 2015, he was acquitted of some of the charges but he was jailed for five years for impersonating a police officer, one year for dressing in police uniform and six months each for three charges of being in possession of government stores.

He appealed the ruling in the High Court which ordered for a retrial of the case before moving to the Court of Appeal in 2017 which in turn dismissed the case in totality.

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