Ipoa team probes City Park shooting
Ms Janet Waiyaki who was shot dead by police officers at City Park in Nairobi on Sunday, May 201, 2018. The police oversight authority (IPOA) has on May 23, 2018 launched probe into the killing . PHOTO | COURTESY
What you need to know:
- Five police officers recorded statements over the shooting incident.
- Ms Janet Waiyaki was shot dead on Sunday morning and her kin Bernard Chege injured in what police termed 'mistaken identity.'
- Mr Chege is still admitted at the Avenue Hospital in Nairobi.
Independent Policing Oversight Authority (Ipoa) has said it has dispatched its rapid response unit to investigate the shooting to death of a woman and injuring of her kin by police officers on Sunday morning.
The Ipoa statement comes a day after five police officers suspected of being involved in the shooting recorded statements at the DCI headquarters on Kiambu Road.
The police unit will investigate the fatal shooting of Ms Janet Waiyaki, 41, and the injuring of her kin, 26-year-old Bernard Chege, at City Park, Nairobi.
Mr Chege is still admitted at the Avenue Hospital in Nairobi.
On Tuesday, a postmortem conducted on Ms Waiyaki showed she died from internal bleeding after vital organs were damaged by a bullet.
A police report identified two police officers, Administration Police constables William Chirchir from Makadara Police Station and Godfrey Kirui from Industrial Area Police Station, as the ones who fired on Ms Waiyaki and her companion.
The two are among five police officers who recorded statements over the City Park shooting incident and whose firearms have been taken for ballistic examinations to identify the culprits.
Ms Waiyaki’s family has questioned what the two officers were doing in the area under the jurisdiction of Parklands Police Station.
The Ipoa Act requires the authority to hold police accountable to the public in the performance of their functions and demands police maintain high standards of professionalism and discipline.
