Eric Omondi. [KFCB]
Eric Omondi is free. The comedian was released Friday, March 12, on a Sh50,000 police bond after spending the night in police custody over unauthorized ‘Wife Material’ content. He is set to appear in court on March 18, 2021.
The ‘President of Comedy Africa’ was arrested Thursday afternoon by Kenya Film Classification Board officers and detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for violating the provisions of the Films and Stage Plays Act, a day after he unveiled season two of
Wife Material contestants.
According to KFCB, the production and distribution of
Wife Material was contrary to the Act’s provisions which prohibits the exhibition or broadcast of films without a certificate of approval; injuring its obligation to protect children from exposure to harmful content.
Lawrence Njoroge Warunge, 22, the prime suspect in the brutal killings of his four family members and a farmhand in Kiambu, is mentally unfit to stand trial, the medical assessment report done at Nairobi’s Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital shows.
The report tabled Tuesday before Kiambu Chief Magistrate Patricia Gichohi by the prosecution team also shows that Warunge has a history of smoking marijuana and drinking spirits and has paranoid delusions.
“Lawrence is mentally unstable and is not fit to plead,” the report reads.
The report further says that the suspect is suffering from an induced psychosis which is a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
“Lawrence is mentally unstable and is not fit to plead,” the report reads.
The report further says that the suspect is suffering from an induced psychosis which is a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
On family history, the report says Warunge had a frosty relationship with his father, whom he killed alongside other family members.
Following the report, the court ordered that Warunge be taken back to Mathari Hospital where the medical exam test was done so that he can start his treatment.
His case will be mentioned in court on March 1, 2021.