Piece by: CAROLYNE KUBWA

08 December 2022

• IPOA summoned Rashid 11 times but he failed to appear, meaning he was given a chance to be heard.

• In 2017, Rashid was caught on camera shooting at two unarmed men in Eastleigh.

Eastleigh-based crime buster Rashid Ahmed Hassan is expected to be charged on Thursday for the murder of two youths in Eastleigh.

He had moved to court to stop his plea-taking scheduled for Thursday.

Last month, IPOA obtained a summons against Rashid to attend court on December 8 and take a plea for the murder of Jamal Mohammed and Mohammed Dhair Kheri.

The offence was allegedly committed on March 31, 2017, at Amal Plaza in Eastleigh.

In an application filed at the High Court, Rashid wants the ODPP to review the decision to charge him with the murder of the two.

Through lawyer Danstan Omari, Rashid argues that IPOA is not acting in good faith and has a bad motive in their decision as he has never been summoned to give any account of the allegations.

Omari filed the case at the Milimani courts accompanied by several lawyers and the Eastleigh business community who all demanded the freedom of Rashid from the case.

However, speaking after the presser by Rashid’s lawyers, Amnesty International boss Irungu Houghton said the application by Rashid to stop his prosecution was premature.

Irungu said Rashid should wait to appear in court on December 8 to defend himself.

“Legal counsel should not panic. They will get their day in court on 8th December,” he said.

Irungu said IPOA summoned Rashid 11 times but he failed to appear, meaning he was given a chance to be heard.

In 2017, Rashid was caught on camera shooting at two unarmed men in Eastleigh. The video that went viral on social media showed a plainclothes police officer shooting at the two as a shocked crowd watched on.

The officer pumped bullets into one of his victims, a young boy, then got another gun from his colleague and sprayed an additional four bullets on the helpless man who was already on the ground.