Justice at last? Two policemen to face the hangman for killing former MP’s bodyguard

2 police officers sentenced to death for killing MP's bodyguard

It seems someone has heard the cry of Kenyans about rogue police who have been killing innocent Kenyans, without fear knowing that they can get away with it.

Two police officers have been sentenced to death after they were found guilty of killing three people among them a bodyguard of the late Bomachoge MP Joel Onyancha.

Police constables Benjamin Kahindi Changawa and Stanley Okoti were sentenced on Wednesday by Justice S.N. Mutuku. The two shot and killed police constable Joseph Obongo and his two relatives; Geoffrey Mogoi and Amos Okenye in Kangemi area, Nairobi in 2014 on claims that they were robbery suspects.

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The Independent Policing and Oversight Authority (IPOA) had also found the officers culpable and recommended they be charged with murder.

“Following the shooting, IPOA launched investigations on October 7, 2014 to unravel the circumstances that led to the deaths, and to establish whether the police officers were justified in the use of their firearms,” said IPOA.

“IPOA concluded investigations and recommended to the DPP, murder charges and on April 27, 2015, the DPP concurred with IPOA’s recommendations.” The deceased were walking home from a bar in Kangemi at the time of their killing.

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The sentence comes as music to the families who have lost their loved ones to rogue policemen. It was recently announced that more than 17 people were shot and killed by policemen in cold blood in the month of October alone.

Six people were killed in Nairobi’s Dandora slums on the morning of Sunday, 28th October. According to the police, the six were a gang that had hijacked a boda boda rider, raped his victim before stealing from them.

But locals said, the police went for innocent people on that fateful morning and executed them in public, a reminiscent of what was happening at the Sobibor Labor Camp.

IPOA is still investigating the incidents.

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