Douglas Dindi and Nasibo Kabale @PeopleDailyKe
Suspected gangsters raided a police post in Mumias sub-county on Tuesday night, attacked a police officer and stole seven G3 rifles and 180 bullets.
The unknown number of thugs armed with crude weapons stormed Booker Police Post at dawn, located within the densely populated Mumias Sugar Complex (MSC), overwhelmed the lone officer manning station at the time, beat him up, broke into the armoury and looted it before disappearing into the night again.
“Another officer who was reporting for duty Wednesday morning found his colleague still unconscious, “ a witness said. The officer whose identity police declined to reveal is admitted at St Mary’s Hospital in Mumias. Police officers patrolled Mumias town and its environs following the incident that has left senior officers shocked.
Western region police commandant Moses Ombati was at pains to explain the whereabouts of the other duty officers during the raid saying that the station has four police officers but on the fateful day, only one was on duty.
He told reporters the other officers were attending to unexplained emergency at the sugar factory. The locks to the armoury were destroyed and the door left open indicating the attackers had all the time to break and steal the firearms and ammunition.
Ombati was reluctant to link the attack to terror insisting that detectives were investigating the matter. The raid on the station marks the first incident of that magnitude to happen in an otherwise peaceful county such as Kakamega where the only form of armed conflict has been robbery with violence.
The raid on the station marks the first incident of that magnitude to happen in an otherwise peaceful county such as Kakamega where the only form of armed conflict has been robbery with violence. Last July 9, 2016 estimated 150 al Shabaab militants raided Diff police station, killed an officer and looted the amoury.
On September 26, this year six Kenyan police officers were killed during a raid at Hamey police post in Garissa county. Earlier in September 11, three women tricked their way into a Mombasa police station where they stabbed one officer and set fire to the building with a petrol bomb before they shot dead by police. Ends
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