A night-guard working at a popular night club in Kambu town, Kibwezi Constituency was killed while the manager sustained injuries, as armed robbers forcefully stormed into the premises where they made away with Ksh 2000.
Kibwezi Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD), BenChangulo, confirmed that the armed robbery incident occurred during the early hours of Tuesday morning.
“The guard was hit with a blunt object on the head in the 5 am incident and died at the scene but the manager survived the attack. He is admitted to the hospital,” aChangulo added.
The body of the deceased was then taken to Makindu Sub-County Mortuary.
Kambu residents who found the body of the club bouncer, assembled a meeting over the alarming insecurity within the area was the main agenda. All business establishments were closed as residents made their way to the meeting so as to air their security grievances.
The locals believe that the same gang is behind several robberies that took place across petrol stations in the area on Monday night.
“We will tell you what next after resolutions of the assembly. But you can see we are not safe anymore. We have to do something before all of us are killed,” a trader revealed.
The latest attack comes barely a month after a 47-year-old George Mutunga, a local businessman who owned several M-Pesa shops was gunned down in the same area by unknown assailants.
Kibwezi Assistant Commissioner, Vitali Ogur, had assured the area residents that the perpetrators would be apprehended as investigations were ongoing, but there have been no arrests reported yet.