A Milimani High Court has ordered the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Inspector General of the National Police Service to pay former Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) student Ksh8 million for violating his rights.

In a ruling delivered by Justice Patricia Nyaundi on Friday, July 3, 2026, the court found that the former student Allan Omondi was brutally assaulted by police after they arrested and detained him unlawfully in 2019 during student unrest.

Judge Nyaundi stated that the police officers arrested Omondi several times and subjected him to violent assault and detention, thus violating his right to human dignity and freedom from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, contrary to Articles 28 and 29 of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010.

Further, the learned judge also noted that the DPP failed to process the diversion, occasioning a violation of the right to access justice contrary to Article 48 of the Constitution, and ordered the NSP and the DPP to pay the former student Ksh8 million.

“It is my finding that the actions of the police officers on November 11, 2019, amounted to violations of the petitioner’s (Omondi) constitutional rights. The assault and subsequent detention at the police station infringed his right to human dignity under Article 28, and his right to freedom and security of the person under Article 29, including the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment,” Justice Nyaundi ruled.

“The petitioner (Omondi) is awarded the sum of Ksh8 million for the violation of his rights, payable by the 1st and 2nd defendants (NPS and DPP),” Judge Nyaundi ruled.

On November 22, 2022, Omondi sued the NPS, DPP and the Attorney General (AG), alleging grave violations of his constitutional rights, citing that police officers subjected him to severe physical assault on November 11, 2019.

He stated that uniformed police officers beat, kicked, and restrained him in degrading positions, conduct widely captured on video and disseminated through local and international media.

Omondi contended that the assault, his subsequent detention without charge, and the denial of medical attention constituted a wholesale departure from the constitutional and statutory obligations governing police conduct.