Why Kemboi has been in the news this week

Kenya’s Olympic champ Ezekiel Kemboi has been in the news this week following his acquittal by a court on allegations of sexual assault that were leveled to him by a Kenyan woman Ms. Anne Njeri Otieno.

According to BBC NEWS, the acquittal followed the withdrawal of the case by the plaintiff who said that she has forgiven Kemboi and that she was planning to go and pursue studies.

“I want to go back to university to pursue journalism and I have forgiven Kemboi out of my own free will,” Anne was quotes as saying by BBC.

However, AFP News Agency had earlier reported that the other reason that prompted her to drop the case was the fact that she had been ostracized from the community when it (the community) leant that she had raised the allegations to their hero.

However, in his own plea, Mr. Kemboi had alleged that Ms. Njeri has colluded with a gang to rob him at night and had been stabbed in the fight.

This seems a rather interesting story as both parties were pointing an accusing finger at one another but finally they decided to settle the matter out of court which leaves a lot in suspense.