Kenya Power Boss Defends Assaulting Bar Owner In CCTV Footage [VIDEO]

Veska Kangogo, who is currently serving as a director at Kenya Power, on Tuesday, June 27 came out to defend herself after being put on the spot over allegedly assaulting a bar proprietor in Sabaki, Machakos County.

The owner, Beth Njeri, had claimed that Kangogo had stormed her place of work demanding her son's phone after it was detained over an unpaid bill of Ksh1,000.

CCTV footage captured on Monday, June 19 at Maybach Zone in Sabaki along Mombasa Road and aired on Citizen TV's prime-time news bulletins showed Kangogo summoning a waitress in her direction before pushing her into a wines and spirits shop.

Seconds later, they are seen stepping out of the premises and heading to the office where the owner sits as she monitors the business.

Njeri is then seen pleading with Kangogo to resolve the issue at hand but she is cut short moments after they enter the office. 

Kangogo is then captured pulling her backwards before picking up a stick that was in the office. Njeri then holds on to the door as the Kenya Power boss pulls her and hits her on the head with the stick.

Those around her are then seen snatching the stick from her as another group rushed to Njeri's aid at her office, who at the time is injured.

A security guard going to check on his boss is followed by Kangogo, but he turns back and engages her in a heated argument. The drama lasted about 10 minutes and was captured in the footage which went viral on social media.

The matter was reported and booked under OB 13/19/06/223 at the Sabaki Police Post whose officers embarked on their probe.

Njeri, a week after the incident, had revealed that the scuffle was triggered by a difference between her employee and Kangogo's son who had failed to pay his Ksh1,000 bill at their wines and spirit shop and was forced to leave behind his phone.

"Her issue was that she was claiming her son was sold alcohol and he was robbed of his phone, yet he was the one who placed his phone at the shop in exchange for his drink. He promised that when he gets money he would bring it so that he gets his phone back," Njeri told Citizen TV.

Kangogo however countered by revealing that she had visited the premises in response to her son's complaints that his phone had been stolen at the premises and that she had also reported the matter to the police.