Eldoret bouncer charged with assault
A bouncer from one of the popular night clubs in Eldoret located along Eldoret-Kapsabet road has been charged with assaulting a reveller and subjecting him to grievous bodily harm.
Amos Tekis alias Sendee, 35, allegedly roughed up an Eldoret based doctor at one of the night clubs.
The charge sheet stated that the incident occurred at the entertainment joint in Kapseret on the night of November 27,2022.
The court heard the accused unlawfully roughed up Dr Evans Rono subjecting him to grievous harm contrary to section 234 of Penal code.
Police have been investigating the incident since it was reported at Langas police station on November 28,2022.
The complainant recorded a statement after he was discharged from a local hospital and filled P3 form.
Mr Tekis who on Wednesday appeared before senior Principal Magistrate Peter Areri denied the charge and was released on a cash bail of Sh10,000.
His employer has since terminated his services after the incident.
The matter will be heard on July 6.
The incident is one of the many incidents where boisterous bouncers bounce on customers in various recreation joints taking the law into their hands.
Revelers from Eldoret have expressed concern over increasing cases of bouncers who regularly subject them to various forms of assault without following due process of law.
“Bouncers are behaving as if they use their own laws. Many of them have no courtesy to their customers. There are so many cases of brutality netted against revelers in this town, the majority of these cases go unreported,” said Elijah Ayieko, an Eldoret based lawyer.
Mr Ayieko cautioned bouncers against taking law into their hands.
The lawyer said due to many misconceptions about what bouncers are legally allowed to do, many suffer brutality in the hands of rowdy bouncers.
In 2019 a man who was physically assaulted by a bouncer at an Eldoret Club died while receiving treatment at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital.
Policy on the role of bouncer’s states that bouncers are not free to engage in excessive force or violence as they see fit.
However, they can only use force if it is first used against them in tandem with rights of any ordinary citizen commonly referred to as the right to self-defense.
In most cases bouncers are trained to remedy situations through verbal communication rather than physical force.
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