Constable George Aluoch was escorting an unknown driver to Changamwe Police Station for a traffic offence when the said driver rammed into the rear of a stationary truck from the passengers’ side killing the officer instantly.
In a police Occurrence Book report seen by kenyagist.com, the driver of the lorry with registration KCD 407N thereafter escaped after the incident.
A police vehicle at a scene of a crime
A manhunt has been launched for the said driver as the police seek to find justice for their fallen colleague who met his death at about 5 p.m.
The OB report indicates that the fugitive intionally rammed into the stationery causing the untimely death of the plice officer described by his colleagues as a a bubbly person who just an hour earlier had been jovially interacting with them.
“The circumstacnes were that NO 84349 PC (Police Constable) George Aluoch Otieno had boarded the vehicle REG NO. KCD 407N to esxort the same to station for a traffic offence when on reaching athe ocation of the accident, the unknown driver of M/V REG KCD 407N intentionally rammed into the rear of the truck fatally injuring the NO. 84349 PC George Aluoch Otieno on the spot,” an exceprt from the police occurence book at the Changamwe Police Station reads.
Earlier on in the day, Police Spokesperson Charles Owino in a TV interview with Citizen TV accused the media of turning the public against the police.
“I don’t think its fair to simply just discuss the wrongdoing of the police because the limits that I have is that we have institutions that deal with this.”
”I would take it that you are simply pitting the public against the police.”
”The police have done a very good job except for the few cases where we saw indisciplined officers taking actions that were not appropriate,” Owino is quoted.
On Friday 27, there was public outrage against how the police treated the public and in particular how they treated Mombasa residents.
Videos and pictures emerged whereby the police were seen using excessive force as they tried to implement curfew directives issued by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Police order Mombasa residents on the ground on March 27, 2020, just hours before the start of nationwide curfew to curb spread of coronavirus.
Daily Nation