By MN Reporter
On April 3, John Boino, the OCS at Kehancha Police Station was hurt by a mob only a day after an administration police officer was hacked to death with panga in Kaler ward, Nyatike sub-county on Saturday night.
Boino and a group of police officers were out to rescue a suspected motorbike thief from an angry mob which was baying for his blood when he ran and hid at a local hospital in Kehancha town, Kuria West sub-county.
Administrators at Mother and Child Hospital made a distress call at the station that the mob, mostly led by boda boda riders stormed the hospital and wanted to lynch the suspect whom the said was notorious and police had failed to push his arrest and persecution.
Kuria West Police Sub-County Commander Cleti Kimaiyo said they sent in Boino and 14 police officers to prevent the mob from burning down the hospital after the suspected had disappeared and later was located inside a ceiling.
“When our officers got to the hospital, they found the mob which was preparing to burn down the hospital, and they intervened,” Kimaiyo said.
The police managed to enter the facility and removed the suspect from the roof ceiling where he was hiding, as he feared for his life.
“It was when the police were escorting the suspect inside the vehicle that hell broke loose as the mob started stoning police and attempted to snatch away the suspect and burn him,” he said.
It forced police to fire 24 rounds of bullets in the air and lob 26 teargas at the crowd as Boino sustained an injury at his ankle before he was treated at the same facility and discharged in a stable condition.
“The police vehicle and the hospital ambulance had damaged windscreen and body dents, several window panes at the hospital were also smashed. The suspect was escorted to Kehancha police station,” he said.
Migori county commander Mark Wanjala said on Saturday, two police officers based at Kaler police post on night patrol had intercepted a boda boda rider carrying bhang from Tanzania in Kaler war at around 9pm.
“The rider was arrested and started rising alarm before members of the public came in and demanded that he be released,” Wanjala said.
An armed crowd using machete and other crude weapons started attacking the two officers cutting one severally on the head while the other had to fire in the air to save his colleague.
The suspect died while receiving treatment at a hospital in Migori town.
The suspect in the melee managed to escape rising fear in ganga taking over bhang trade from Tanzania.
Wanjala and Kimaiyo called on the public to consider police as part of main force of keeping and maintaining security in society.
The OCS at Kehancha Police Station was hurt by a mob only a day after an administration police officer was hacked to death with panga in Kaler ward, Nyatike sub-county on Saturday night.
Boino and a group of police officers were out to rescue a suspected motorbike thief from an angry mob which was baying for his blood when he ran and hid at a local hospital in Kehancha town, Kuria West sub-county.
Administrators at Mother and Child Hospital made a distress call at the station that the mob, mostly led by boda boda riders stormed the hospital and wanted to lynch the suspect whom the said was notorious and police had failed to push his arrest and persecution.
Kuria West Police Sub-County Commander Cleti Kimaiyo said they sent in Boino and 14 police officers to prevent the mob from burning down the hospital after the suspected had disappeared and later was located inside a ceiling.
“When our officers got to the hospital, they found the mob which was preparing to burn down the hospital, and they intervened,” Kimaiyo said.
The police managed to enter the facility and removed the suspect from the roof ceiling where he was hiding, as he feared for his life.
“It was when the police were escorting the suspect inside the vehicle that hell broke loose as the mob started stoning police and attempted to snatch away the suspect and burn him,” he said.
It forced police to fire 24 rounds of bullets in the air and lob 26 teargas at the crowd as Boino sustained an injury at his ankle before he was treated at the same facility and discharged in a stable condition.
“The police vehicle and the hospital ambulance had damaged windscreen and body dents, several window panes at the hospital were also smashed.
The suspect was escorted to Kehancha police station,” he said.
Migori county commander Mark Wanjala said on Saturday, two police officers based at Kaler police post on night patrol had intercepted a boda boda rider carrying bhang from Tanzania in Kaler war at around 9pm.
“The rider was arrested and started rising alarm before members of the public came in and demanded that he be released,” Wanjala said.
An armed crowd using machete and other crude weapons started attacking the two officers cutting one severally on the head while the other had to fire in the air to save his colleague.
The suspect died while receiving treatment at a hospital in Migori town.
The suspect in the melee managed to escape rising fear in ganga taking over bhang trade from Tanzania.
Wanjala and Kimaiyo called on the public to consider police as part of main force of keeping and maintaining security in society.
