Four police officers based at Maai Mahiu Police Station were arrested after a colleague was shot dead during an alleged robbery incident.
The development was confirmed on Friday, October 31 by Isaac Kiama, a Directorate of Criminal Investigations officer in Naivasha, two days after the fatal shooting.
The officers had responded to reports of a suspicious lorry being offloaded in the Msikiti area, approximately one kilometre from the station, with their departed colleague.
Upon arriving at the scene, the officers found around ten men offloading the goods. When ordered to stop, the suspects fled in different directions.
Gunshots were fired during the ensuing chase and it was later discovered that a corporal had sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the chest and died at the scene.
Notably, the source of the gunfire remained unknown as none of the officers admitted to firing their weapons.
However, senior officers established that the four were linked to the shooting and the subsequent cover-up, leading to their arrest.
Five firearms belonging to the officers, including Jericho pistols and Ceska handguns, were confiscated for ballistic examination.
Meanwhile, the lorry was towed to the station for further inspection, and the body of the deceased officer was taken to Umme Funeral Home pending post-mortem.
The four were set to be arraigned later on Friday even as authorities continued to conduct more investigations into the circumstances of the shooting.
The shooting incident had been reported at the Maai-Mahiu Police Station under OB 04/29/10/2025 by a police constable based at the station.
The latest comes after an incident at the Maguguni Patrol Base in Thika where 72 suspects have been arrested in connection with breaking into the police post and fleeing with two rifles and over 170 rounds of ammunition.
