President Uhuru Kenyatta's bodyguard has been admitted to the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) following a suicide attempt.
GSU officer Samuel Njoroge, who is attached to the Presidential Escort Unit, is said to have attempted to kill himself after he killed his girlfriend at the Nairobi CBD.
Police reports indicate that Police Constable Njoroge killed Anne Wanjohi at a cyber cafe she operates before he shot himself in the chest and left bicep.
Witnesses say that Njoroge raided the cyber cafe on Tom Mboya street opposite the Nairobi fire station where he found the lady attending to a client.
"He wanted to talk to her about their relationship because she had wanted to break up with him over the past two weeks.
"Anne was attending to a client but he insisted on talking to her. She said she was busy and needed to finish with the client," narrated Mr Ashford Hinga, Ms Wanjohi’s workmate.
Mr Hinga added that the officer left promising to come back and kept texting the deceased while he was away.
The officer would soon return to find Ms Wanjohi packing her things ready to leave and after seeing that she was not ready to listen to him, the officer pulled out his Jericho pistol and shot her hand.
"When Anne tried to get away, he shot her again and again as he threatened to shoot the other people who were in the cyber café and those who came to see what was happening," the witness recalled.
Ms Wanjohi's mother, Njambi Gacheru, told reporters that she had been waiting outside the cyber when her daughter was murdered.
"He found me outside. We spoke for a few minutes and then he went inside. He did not tell me his intentions but he had constantly told me that he loved my daughter," Ms Gacheru conveyed.
Mary Wangare, Ms Wanjohi's sister, revealed that the officer had been pestering the deceased with a marriage proposal that she had rejected.
"He kept insisting that he wanted to marry her immediately. This made Anne uncomfortable and she tried avoiding him
"She wanted to continue working so that she could save some money to enable her to join the university. She was his girlfriend, but he insisted on marriage. I don’t know why he shot her, but I remember he had assaulted her on three occasions," Wangare revealed.
The Inspector General of Police, Joseph Boinnet, is expected to make public a report on such killings of civilians, which have been linked to poor police working conditions and trauma, among other reasons.
The presidential escort officer later succumbed to injuries from the suicide attempt at the KNH.
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