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Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu has disclosed why he refused to bail out his son after he was arrested for drunk driving four weeks ago.
Brian Ndung’u, a law student at Strathmore University was arrested on March 15th for driving under the influence of alcohol.
He was driving a Toyota Probox on Muindi Mbingu Street in Nairobi CBD at 1:30 am and was incapable of controlling the vehicle, according to a police report.
Appearing before Senior Principal Magistrate Esther Kimilu of Milimani law courts, he pleaded guilty to the charges and appealed for leniency, arguing that he was a first-time offender.
The 25-year-old was fined Sh30,000 or serve a three-month jail term in default of payment of fine. Ndung'u spent two days in police custody until his friend Clinton Githinji paid the fine to secure his release after his family refused to bail him out.
In an interview with People Daily, Waititu said he instructed his family and friends not to pay the fine, saying he has warned him multiple times against drunk driving.
“My boy Brian called me over 30 times and, I refused to pick his calls. I have always warned him and all my family members against drunk driving,” said Waititu.
“I hate drunk driving because I have seen very promising people lose their lives to carnage because of careless drivers. I could not take it that my son who I discipline is asking for Sh30,000 to pay a fine for drunk driving. He ought to suffer for that. I can never do that.”
Waititu, who neither drinks nor smokes, wishes his son was sent to jail.
“I was shocked that my son was caught in such an embarrassing situation. I wish I had the powers to sentence instead of fining him. I wanted him to spend a few more days in jail,” he remarked.
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...are you the same one who…
...are you the same one who was caught looting for your daughter after your cup of loot overflowed? Some double-standard somewhere....
Waititu is just trying to be…
Waititu is just trying to be a great father. That's it.
Forget about How he has stolen and will continue to steal. He's still a father.
That's the Way to go Mr…
That's the Way to go Mr. Waititu. After all: How can he be a good LAW Student without Obeying the LAWs he Espouses to Enforce in the Future as a LAWYER?
Babayo would have you…
Babayo would have you believe that stealing from the county coffers is a great job, business as usual but drunk driving is a very serious offence whose perpetrators should be jailed.
Both should be in jail babayao for life and the young for three months.
And BTW, babayao is yet to show the public his passport and travel documents to India where he "ostensibly" attended school and graduated. Did he swim from Kenya to India back and forth?.
Well Waititu - if your son…
Well Waititu - if your son aught to suffer for drunk driving, don’t you think you should be in jail for corruption related charges? Your son is just behaving like his father - failure to take responsibility for his actions, just the same way with you!
Wait a minute! As a matter of fact Waititu junior is far much better than Waititu senior for acdmitting that he drove under the alcohol influence and even asked the judge for clemency! Big Waititu is still denying that he stole poor tax payers money! So I give the kid some credit fir being honest!
@Jowie, in the same spirit…
@Jowie, in the same spirit Jowie should be in jail along with Jackie Maribe for killing Monica in 2018.
Surely that sounds really…
Surely that sounds really good! You are just like that Madhavan candy dude! I will certainly save some raw ugali for you since you will be sitting next door to Matheri in prison!! What a loser!!??
That’s the way to go mr…
That’s the way to go mr waititu.The story here was about son drink driving not waititu corruption cases which r in out courts.I remember while residing in usa I also refused to b bailing Kenyans who r caught having bot papers illegally yaani kuowa kiamarathi juu wao they don’t tell u when they r doing so but mtu akishikwa anaanza kusumbua community utolewe jera??Pia especially Boston/Massachusetts walevi wa aina hii kama ya waititu son ni wengi sana.Delaware state lost 3 guys from dui so waititu u did good.Buy alcohol kunywa at yr hse when ur off idiot.