A case in which 12 police officers were set to appear before the High Court for plea-taking in the case of baby Pendo who was killed during anti-government protests in Kisumu in 2017 has yet again failed to take off.
This is after Justice Lilian Mutende, who was supposed to handle the case, was transferred to another workstation in the judicial transfers conducted in December last year.
The High Court has consequently postponed the plea-taking to January 29 where the 12 officers are set to appear before Justice Margaret Muigai to plead to the charges of murder.
Willis Otieno, one of the lawyers appearing for Baby Pendo, had earlier expressed hopes that the case would pick up and justice be rendered to the parents after a seven-year wait. Police deployed in Nairobi on Thursday ahead of Nane Nane protests.
