Residents of Embakasi have called out on a Police officer who they claim killed a resident mistaken to be a robber.
Julius Ochieng was shot dead by police after he had a confrontation with a bar owner who later called the police.
According to the police boss Ochieng Mirang’i the deceased was a robbery with violence suspect who has been on their radar.
He further added saying that he was in a group of four gangsters who were planning to rob residents.
“He was a thief. We have been trailing him for a while. When we caught up with him he was with three others who managed to escape,” he added
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority has asked friends and relatives to lodge a complaint.
Following a communication by the IPOA communication officer Dennis Ochieng, “IPOA has not received the aforementioned incident as a complaint as yet.”
He further added saying that while the authority picks up and pursues complaints against the conduct of the police from media coverage and other alternative means, it would greatly advance investigations if victims, relatives, friends and witnesses lodged complaints which he said would facilitate quicker response that would among others help them find crime scenes still fresh and witness accounts detailed.
According to a close friend of Fwedege descrfibed him as a humble guy who minded his own business.
“He was hustling. He woke up every day at 5am to tout for the matatus operating from the area to Taj Mall. He would come back by 11am and start drinking just here in a local club” the friend.
He said Fwedege would lose control and start abusing those around him when drunk. This landed him in trouble with three officers from the station.
Last year, Fwedege was arrested a number of times and locked up but he did not change his behaviour.