A police officer was on Wednesday arraigned in a Nairobi Court and charged for losing his gun.
The court heard that Cleophas Otundo, who is attached to Kabete Police Station, told his seniors that his AK47 was stolen in a manner he could not explain.
Presiding over the case, Magistrate Shadrack Mwinzi heard that Otundo lost his official firearm in unclear circumstances between February 15 and 16.
The officer denied the charge and was released on a Sh100,000 bond or a cash bail of Sh30,000.
Magistrate Mwinzi set the case for hearing on May 17.
In October last year, another officer based at Mowlem police post in Nairobi lost a second gun just days after being reinstated.
It was reported that Constable Sammy Leleur, lost a pistol loaded with 12 rounds of ammunition which he claimed was snatched from him by a gangster. Upon losing his first weapon, Mr Leleur purported that he was pursuing criminals when his gun fell in a sewer line.
Meanwhile, a police woman in Kilifi is being investigated following claims that she hired her gun to criminals who killed a teacher in the area.
The officer is said to have been transferred to another work station after Mathias Baraka, a suspect in the murder of the female teacher, was killed by police on Friday.
It is believed that the police woman had been lending her gun to a gang led by Baraka.
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