Killer Police on the loose: Another man in custody sprayed with seven bullets

Evans Odhiambo, a mechanic based along Kirinyaga road in downtown Nairobi, was heading to his home in Mathare after a long day on Friday 26th October when he was hit by a stray bullet.

His rental home is in Mathare North Area 2, and he was shot just meters away from his house, according to his wife. A good Samaritan, riding a motorcycle rushed him to Mathare North Health Centre where he was briefly attended to stop bleeding.

Little did he know that was the beginning of a very torturous time whose end would be his body found at City Mortuary punctured with seven bullets.

According to his wife Eveline Atieno, her husband was referred to Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital for specialized treatment after the first aid at the Health Center.

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But while relatives waited for a vehicle to transfer him, police in two vehicles are said to have arrived in the company of a robbery victim, who did not single out Odhiambo as one of the robbers, but police still took him away.

Police officers on civilian clothes alighted with guns pointed on Ochieng, his wife and the neighbour.

“He has our gun. He must return it,” they roared “while asking him to get out of the stretcher and start walking.”
His wife still recalls in vivid details how “he was crying pleading with them that he was not a thug. We all tried to inform them that he had been shot by a stray bullet while heading home from work.”

“He was calling my name and asking me to tell the police who he is,” she said and then broke down while holding her bump as if in pain.

By this time, Odhiambo had been bundled in the boot of the Probox.

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That was the last time his wife said she saw him alive, with a single bullet to the hip, but his body at the mortuary had six more.

More worrying for the family is that there are no records to indicate that he was attended at Mathare North Hospital despite two officials confirming that they saw him.

“He was first taken to Room 8 and then 6…he was here,” a health officer, who equally did not want to be named said.

“The lady said Odhiambo was not among the thugs who had stolen from her. She said they were three, but he was not among them,” an emotionally wrecked Atieno told local news outside the City Mortuary.

 

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