A police officer attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Molo, Nakuru County, was disarmed and arrested after he was allegedly involved in a shooting incident with a bodaboda rider on Wednesday night.
This is after the rider took the officer’s wife home late, police said.
The rider identified as Edwin Keitany was shot and injured and was expected to undergo head surgery on Saturday to remove the bullet fragments, officials said.
The victim recorded a statement with the Independent Policing and Oversight Authority (IPOA) from his hospital bed.
Medics at the Nairobi Women’s Hospital in Nakuru are attending to the 25-year-old victim.
The victim was admitted to the facility on Thursday and claimed he was shot and injured by a police officer following an altercation between the DCI officer and a female passenger believed to be his wife.
He said a passenger asked him to take her to her home in Ole polos. “
"When we reached it, I found a man waiting and he asked me where I was coming with his wife. A confrontation broke out, and I felt pain and bleeding,” he added.
Police said the suspect, who is a sergeant in rank, is in police custody, and his pistol, containing 14 9 mm rounds, has since been seized.
The resident medical officer on duty said the victim had severe soft tissue injuries, and a CT scan showed multiple bullet fragments in the right frontal region.
The incident is the latest of many others involving police officers.
On March 23, a police officer attached to the State House Spokesman, Hussein Mohamed, is suspected to have shot dead a man in a confrontation over a pool game in Kawangware, Nairobi.
A police officer attached to Parliament had earlier in the month shot and killed a colleague in an argument over their ranks.
He also injured a second officer at the Gigiri police canteen.
In another incident, an officer attached to a VIP protection pool shot dead a colleague
seconded to CBK in a confrontation in the Ruaraka area in February this year.
He was later arrested.
Police
say they are investigating the incidents, which they insist are isolated.
Many of
the cases have been linked to trauma among police officers due to their work.
Authorities say they have rolled out programmes to address the challenge of trauma in general.
