Police in Nakuru have been criticised for locking up a 12-year-old boy with criminals in a cell. The minor, who was arrested on Monday night, was accused of stealing a mobile phone belonging to a woman at Nakuru’s Pangani Estate on Saturday. “My son admitted that he took the phone and gave it to his friend,” said Ms Jane Wanjiku, the boy’s mother. “Police harassed my son and called him names when we got to the station before locking him up in the cells,” said Ms Wanjiku. She said that her son, was, however, released at 2am after she paid the complainant Sh5,000.

Source: Daily Nation February 05, 2019 13:52 UTC