Nairobi police officer shoots friend 10 times during miraa chewing session
- Police constable Edgar Mokamba had been deployed as the station guard at Nyari Police Patrol Base in Gigiri
- On Tuesday evening, he was joined by his regular friend and the two spent their time chewing miraa
- Moments later, a blast of bullets was heard and when the officer-in-charge of the station rushed to the scene, he found the lifeless body of the civilian in his Toyota Probox
- Police are now holding Mokamba and have launched a probe to establish the motive of the shooting
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Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have launched investigations into the death of a civilian who had visited Nyari Police Patrol Base in Nairobi's Gigiri area.
According to a statement from DCI boss George Kinoti, the civilian who frequents the station had visited his friend, Edgar Mokamba, a police constable, on the evening of Tuesday, December 29.
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Mokamba is now being held as a suspect in connection with the death of his friend.
Preliminary findings show the two were enjoying miraa at the station where the police officer had been deployed as a station guard when the incident happened.
"Shockingly, a blast of shots was heard hours later where the officer-in-charge base rushed to the scene only to find the lifeless body of the victim at the driver's seat of his Toyota Probox.The officer, who had been socially chewing miraa with the deceased the whole time, was disarmed and arrested, having sprayed 10 rounds of ammunition in the blast. With him in cells, detectives have launched investigations to establish the motive behind the killing," the DCI said in a statement.The incident comes hardly a week after TUKO.co.ke reported how a KDF soldier was killed by civilians in Utawala in a suspected love triangle.
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According to DCI, the soldier had just left an entertainment joint in the company of his brother when they met a couple and he decided to greet the woman.
The man who was with the lady was disgusted with the greetings and this snowballed into a fight that led to the lynching of the serviceman.
Detectives in Kasarani are also investigating circumstances under which a suspect who had just been released from the station died.
Genson Mbuba had been booked at the Kasarani Police Station but his body was discovered in a ditch along Thika Super Highway after being discharged.
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