Officers from the elite Directorate of Criminal Investigation’s Special Crime Prevention Unit raided former Sports CS Rashid Echesa’s Karen residence on Sunday night.
According to the police report at Kilimani Police station, OB68/17/3/2009, the DCI officers took Echesa’s Beretta pistol and recovered 15 bullets during the operation.
The police are allowed to record an inventory of items they recover in such operations at any police station soon after the raid.
Echesa was sacked from President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Cabinet on March 1. No reason was given.
A local daily reports that Echesa on Tuesday initially denied any raid took place and disconnected the phone, only to call back minutes later and said he “met the police.”
During the first conversation with the Star, Echesa said, “Which police officers? Am not aware of such a thing.”
Echesa called back the Star minutes after that first conversation and said the story about police raiding his house was propaganda. He threatened to sue the Star if it was published.
The former ODM youth winger confirmed, however, that he had “met” police officers who had questioned him about the licensing of his gun.
“What I know is that I met police officers who wanted to know whether my gun is licensed and I produced all documentation, ” the ex-CS said.
He declined to state where and what time he “met” the police officers and said he was not a criminal.
He said the officers did not take away his gun and the bullets after confirming that all his gun licenses were intact.