Umoja 2 MCA Joseph Ndonji charged with assaulting a city pastor

According to the prosecution, on May 30, 2019, at Kwa Miti along Mayanja Road in Tena Estate, The MCA jointly with others unlawfully attacked Jared Ouma Aruwa by punching him occasioning him grievous bodily harm.

However, while appearing before Makadara Senior Principal Magistrate Stephen Jalang’o on Thursday, June 17, the ward representative pleaded not guilty. According to the police report, Aruwa was walking to a hardware shop along Mayanja Road to buy paint when Ndonji called out his name from his vehicle.

He then asked him to come over to his car where the politician angrily asked him why he was frustrating his development projects by destroying electric poles he had put up.

The man of God, in his statement, denied vandalizing electric poles allegations, after which Ndonji grabbed him by the shoulders and started to kick him.

He explained that the MCA forced him to stand while shaking him and forced him to admit that he was behind the destruction of the poles.

The 53-year-old pastor further told police that the MCA hit him on the shoulder after which his driver joined in and held him by the neck as he tried to strangle him claiming he wanted to beat up his boss.

Aruwa reported that another group of goons joined them and beat him ruthlessly with kicks and blows. It’s while he was on the ground that he heard the MCA saying “Amepata adhabu ya kutosha mwache sasa (we have punished him enough, leave him)”.