Court Summons Boniface Mwangi Over Social Media Post on Ongoing Police Assault Case

Human Rights Activist and Presidential hopeful Boniface Mwangi has been summoned by the Kibera Law Courts for a social media post he made on Wednesday.

Taking to social media on Thursday, Mwangi revealed that he had been directed to appear in court on October 16 at 9am to answer to allegations he made about police officers being corrupt.

“You are hereby summoned to appear before Court No. 1 on 16th October 2025 at 9:00 a.m. This is in relation to the social media posts made on 8th October 2025 touching on the above-mentioned matter,” the summon shared by Mwangi read.

On October 8, after Mwangi attended a hearing on an assault charge on a police officer, he shared that he had been accused of calling a police officer corrupt, an assertion he doubled down on, citing a report by the Anti-Corruption Commission.

“Today in court, Sergeant Osman Omar testified, claiming I called the police corrupt,” Mwangi posted.

“The Anti-Corruption Commission released a survey this year listing police officers as the most corrupt and unethical among all government departments and agencies. The case continues on 20th Nov.”

The ongoing case involves a case from April 2, 2025, when three police officers responded to Mwangi’s Sema Ukweli office after an alleged noise complaint.

Mwangi claimed that one of the police officers who appeared intoxicated roughed them up as soon as he got into the office.

In a social media post following the alleged violent arrest that followed, Mwangi narrated his ordeal leading up to being held at Kilimani, being assaulted and being found the next morning at the station by the OCS, who then ordered that he be taken to the hospital.

“In the early morning hours of 3rd April, 2025, the Kilimani OCS, Albert Chebii, found me writhing in pain and ordered that l be taken to the hospital,” Mwangi narrated. 

“I was driven to Nairobi Hospital under armed escort and immediately put on pain medication after arrival. l underwent a few procedures, including X-rays to check my ribs, a head scan, and an ultrasound to check for internal injuries that I might have sustained in the cells when Ouko punched my body where my kidneys are located.”

He would later report the assault at the same police station and to the Independent Policing Oversight Commission (IPOA), but was urged not to publicise the assault.

However, on April 7, Mwangi said that the police had gone to Kibera Law Court without informing him and had filed charges of ‘offensive conduct and assault’ while he was out of the country on business.

The next hearing in the case was scheduled for November 20.