A Kenyan lawmaker was charged Friday with assault after allegedly slapping a female colleague shortly before the reading of the national budget, police said.
Fatuma Gedi — who is on the budget committee — accused fellow MP Rashid Kassim Amin of slapping her twice on Thursday for failing to allocate certain funds to his constituency.
“He said… ‘you are stupid’, and then he hit me. I was shocked, I could not believe it,” Gedo told Citizen TV.
An image of her crying with her mouth bloodied was shared on social media.
Both lawmakers hail from the northeastern region of Wajir.
According to the charge sheet, Amin was charged with having “wilfully and unlawfully” assaulted Gedi.
Amin denied the charges against him, and was freed on bail until his next appe