Six shot dead in city crime wave
A policeman controls the public where a gangster was shot dead at Nairobi’s Mukuru-Kaiyaba slum on March 5, 2014. A man executed in Buru Buru five days ago had blocked senior government officials from developing a piece of land in Ruai, police investigations have shown. PHOTO | SAMMY KIMATU
What you need to know:
- Police shot dead two men in Mukuru Kaiyaba slums and Makaburini near the Bunyala Road roundabout on Uhuru Highway
- In South B, matatu conductor Kennedy Kibuchi, 32, was shot and injured by gangsters
Six people died and five others were injured in separate crimes around Nairobi.
Two men were burnt to death when Kenyatta University students set them ablaze at 9pm on Wednesday.
Mr Victor Oyalo, a second year student told the police that three men on a motorbike accosted a student and one of them drew a pistol.
A crowd pulled them off the motorcycle which they also set on fire.
Nairobi police chief Benson Kibui said several cases had been reported in which students had been mugged near the university.
“A home-made pistol was recovered and we are also looking for one of the suspects who escaped,” he said.
Two other men died in similar circumstances in the city’s Kawangware area at 3am on Thursday. Police said the victims were in a gang of five trying to break into a shop in Muslim area. Mr Kibui said officers took the charred bodies to the City Mortuary.
Police shot dead two other men in Mukuru Kaiyaba slums and Makaburini near the Bunyala Road roundabout on Uhuru Highway. A police report says the man gunned down in the slums was with four other “suspicious characters.”
The five were spotted by officers from Industrial Area police station on foot patrol in Kambi Moto area of the slum at around 2pm on Wednesday.
“One shot at the officers when asked to stop. The officers responded and he was fatally wounded,” said the report. He was identified as 25-year-old David Ndung’u. A Helwan pistol and a bullet was found on him.
In the other shooting, police killed a man they found carrying a machete. Mr Kibui described the man as a mugger from whom they recovered a mobile phone and wallet that had been grabbed from a pedestrian.
CONDUCTOR SHOT
In South B, matatu conductor Kennedy Kibuchi, 32, was shot and injured by gangsters. The driver, Mr Richard Nyakundi, reported to the police that three men posing as passengers hijacked their vehicle near the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication.
The Route 33 matatu had left South B shopping centre at around 7.30pm and was headed to Ngumo. After the shooting, the gangsters alighted and boarded another matatu travelling to Mlolongo. The conductor was admitted to Kenyatta National Hospital.
In Ongata Rongai, a watchman was shot, according to a police report, for “no apparent reason.” He was guarding the home of Mr Mohamed Ali.
As the gangsters escaped, they accosted Mr Noah Kiptum, a forensic investigator with Barclays Bank and his wife Belvin Namu, a police chief inspector, who were driving into their home.
The gang took control of their vehicle, and drove to Kiserian, where they abandoned the couple after taking their mobile phones.
The police officer was attacked on the same spot on April 27, last year, and robbed of cash, uniform, and mobile phones. She was then in charge of traffic operations in Karen.
In yet another incident, an officer based at police headquarters, was admitted to hospital after he was attacked by gangsters who inflicted deep cuts on his head.
A guard is admitted to hospital after gangsters hurled an explosive, injuring his feet at a residence of a Briton. The gang forced its way into the home and robbed the family of household items.
