Officers escape mob lynching by a whisker in Nyamira

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The police in Kenya and its citizens have a reputation of getting along awkwardly.For a long time there has been a bone of contention between the two that seems to grow on.

Four probation officers are nursing injuries after they were attacked by a mob as they sought pre-bail report for three murder suspects at Omosasa village in West Mugirango, Nyamira County.

The mob torched a government vehicle the probation officers were using.

Two of the officers, Mr Elijah Monda and Mr Moses Macharia, were are admitted at the Nyamira County Referral Hospital with serious injuries.

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Two others, Ms Sophy Ichunge and Ms Divinah Isoe, were treated and discharged.

Mr Monda, the Nyamira Sub County probation officer said they had been directed by Nyamira High Court judge Esther Maina to prepare a pre-bail report for three murder suspects in a case over the killing of a teacher two weeks ago.

“We were just about to be lynched when police officers rescued us,” said Mr Monda.

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The officers had visited the home of Mr Evans Ayana, the teacher who was allegedly killed by three government drivers.

The accused quarrel with the teacher after he hit their government-issued vehicle with his motorcycle.

Furious regional probation Director Koech condemned the attack and called on the police to track those who attacked his officers and arrest them

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