Brian Ndungu, the son of former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu, is set to be moved from the Milimani Law Courts to Industrial Area Remand after failing to raise Sh30,000 fine for drink-driving.
The committal to take him to Industrial Area Remand Prison was signed on Monday afternoon, March 15, after efforts to get his parents to bail him out foundered.
The 25-year-old former Strathmore law student said that his father, a former MP and Kiambu governor, is a teetotaler and strict disciplinarian.
When he asked his father for financial help, Ndung’u said he was told to “go experience how prisons are.”
However, Ndung’u revealed to K24 Digital that he is trying to fundraise through his friends to avoid spending time in prison.
Ndung’u was arrested in the wee hours of Monday morning while drink-driving a Toyota Probox on Muindi Mbingu Street in Nairobi County.
Police said that at the time of the arrest, Ndung’u was so inebriated that he was incapable of controlling the vehicle.
He pleaded guilty before Nairobi Senior Principal Magistrate Esther Kimilu and pleaded for leniency, telling the court that he will not repeat the offense again.
The court ordered him freed but slapped him with a Sh30,000 fine or be imprisoned for three months.
