Police investigations have uncovered new details in a shooting incident involving an officer attached to the SGR in Nairobi.
The officer identified as Senior Sergeant Douglas Okwii had on March 15, shot dead two people under the guise of a robbery at a Kenya Railways construction site in Utawala.
He had alleged that the two had broken into the facility intending to steal materials.
"The officer narrated how, on seeing him, the two; 28-year-old Sanita Kombe and Boniface Ondigo 33, had bolted out towards a waiting Mazda car, which had been loaded with assorted stolen materials from the company's store," a police report revealed.
It is then that he claimed to have shot and fatally injured the two after defying orders to surrender and thereafter arresting a third suspect; Samwel Kibaya, the company's storekeeper.
Detectives investigating the case discovered loopholes in his recollection of events and eventually deduced that the senior officer was in cahoots with the burglars.
They explained that the two met their deaths following a deal going sour as they could not agree on how to carry out the robbery.
Detectives noted that the deal fell through when they engaged in a heated argument over logistics and the cost of transporting their loot on the night of the incident.
"Sanita, a security guard at the China Road Construction site, questioned the thievery and Ondigo was the driver who would ferry the loot to an unestablished destination, but who vehemently objected his share," DCI revealed.
That is when the sergeant allegedly opened fire from his AK47 killing the two. He reported fired a total of seven bullets.
Okwii was arrested upon interrogation and processing of the crime scene.
The officer was arraigned in court and detectives were granted 14 days to hold the suspect in police cells as further investigations continue.
