Detectives have recovered a firearm alleged to have been robbed from an OCS in Vihiga in Kasarani.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations in a statement on Tuesday, stated that the officer in charge of Vihiga police station was on patrol on December 21, 2023, when he was attacked by a gang and his firearm was stolen.
According to the DCI report, the gang allegedly ambushed the OCS while he was parking his car in Vihiga’s Majengo market.
They attacked him with daggers and left him for dead.
The gang is said to have disappeared with his Jericho pistol loaded with 15 rounds of ammunition.
“After days of surveillance, detectives from DCI Operations Directorate swiftly responded to an intelligence report received through the Fichua kwa DCI hotline by an anonymous caller,”
The anonymous caller reported to have spotted a suspicious car occupied by three armed men in Mwiki.
“Stealthily approaching the scene, the officers realised it was the same suspects who had evaded several police dragnets after staging some attacks around the Capital,” the DCI report said.
When ordered by the police to surrender, two of the suspects ran away while the third suspect allegedly pulled out a firearm to confront the detectives.
He was shot down during the confrontation, while his accomplices fled to a crowded shopping center where they are believed to be hiding.
The suspect was found to have a Jericho pistol in his possession after he was stopped during the gunfight with the DCI Operations team who were tracking them.
A vehicle that the suspects were using was impounded alongside other exhibits that were found stashed in it.
The suspect’s body has been moved to the City Mortuary pending identification, police said.
This comes barely two days after police in Eldoret have arrested three suspects involved in armed robberies in the town.
They also recovered a pistol and a motorcycle used by the suspects in the robberies.
The suspects had rented a house in the town as their operating base.
Uasin Gishu County police commander Benjamin Mwanthi said they had been trailing the suspects who were arrested in the rented house in Baharini area.
He said they also recovered more than 40 mobile phones suspected to have been snatched from residents.
Among the three suspects is a man who runs a mobile phone repair shop in the town where the stolen phones were flashed and sold.
