Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has ordered the police to commander in the case involving the shooting of a police boss on Monday, April 2, to reign on the village which attacked police officers.
Speaking during a hospital visit to see the Juja OCS John Misoi on Tuesday, April 2, Gachagua termed the incident as an attack on the government, following the arrest of 53 people involved in the incident.
“The people need to know that you cannot attack police officers, and we will not allow it,” he stated.
“Commander, you must move swiftly, and clean up that village, because this impunity is of the highest order, and not acceptable,” Gachagua added.
The second in command further highlighted reforms set to be implemented in July 2024, to support officers injured in the line of work.
Offering his support, Gachagua also donated an undisclosed amount of money to the OCs’s wife to support the family while the husband was recuperating.
“Here is a card for you to get better, we have reforms that will be implemented from July, and we are even looking at the issues of insurance for officers injured in the line of duty, and to ensure officers risking their lives have their families protected,” Gachagua noted.
Explaining the intensity of the injuries sustained by the police boss, the surgeon in charge noted that the arrow damaged tendons in the knee cap.
“We received the patient with a severe knee injury having been shot with a missile which was an arrow, and we were able to stabilise him in time,” the surgeon noted.
The injured OCS was shot with an arrow by unknown assailants while leading a raid on the production of illicit brew in the Gachochoro area in Kiambu County.
The police boss was taken to Thika Level Five Hospital, before being transferred to a private health facility for surgery.
Police recovered two kilograms of bhang at a liquor den.
