Lumumba still to be charged over polling day assault

Three months after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) recommended that President Advisor on Empowerment Odinga Lumumba, be charged over a polling day incident during which a presiding officer was injured, he is yet to make a court appearance.

Questions have been repeatedly raised as to why police have stalled this investigation even though Lumumba had publically acknowledged that he had pushed the woman, Onika Beckles, and had also damaged the cellular phone of an Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) observer.

Beckles’ attorney Nigel Hughes told this newspaper last evening that he had read in the press in December last year that charges were recommended but neither he nor his client had heard anything from the