Policeman charged with murder
A police officer at a crime scene in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO |
What you need to know:
- IPOA has opened inquiries after a key suspect in the trial, Mr Oscar Muchoki Mwangi, was shot dead on August 24.
- The murder case is due for mention on September 16.
A Nairobi-based policeman was on Friday charged with the death of a man shot dead last year.
Constable Titus Ngamau Musila was remanded at the Industrial Area prison pending a hearing of the case on May 11 and May 12 in 2014.
He is accused of killing Kenneth Kimani Mwangi in Githurai, Nairobi, on April 14.
At the same time, the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA), which investigated the death, has opened inquiries after a key suspect in the trial, Mr Oscar Muchoki Mwangi, was shot dead on August 24.
The civilian oversight body intends to interrogate the officer over the second shooting.
The victims were brothers, and the second one was also killed in Githurai, just three days after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mr Keriako Tobiko, ordered the arrest and prosecution of the officer.
The murder case is due for mention on September 16.
Other witnesses in the pending case have been placed under the government-sponsored Witness Protection Programme.
The case threatened to strain relations between the DPP, IPOA and the police because the officer had remained at large two weeks after Mr Tobiko ordered the arrest.
The DPP reacted by seeking an arrest warrant, which was issued on September 1 and effected three days later.
