Rampage unleashed: Rogue Kenyan policeman kills five and shoots himself

A Kenyan police
officer, Benson Imbasi, shot five people dead before taking his own life in the
capital, Nairobi. The news of this rampage has been confirmed by the police
Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).

Throwing light on the
incident, the DCI stated that the officer in question shot his wife dead at
home, before taking the service issued AK-47, to claim four more lives. Among the
rogue officer’s victims were three men who had just attended funeral
preparations. After executing the three, this officer turned his gun on two
motorcyclists. One of them lost their lives while undergoing treatment.

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When Francis Wahome,
the officer in charge of the Dagoretti area in Nairobi, confirmed the incident,
the total count of victims was put down as six. This number was confirmed by
other police reports as well.

While the exact reason
for the rampage remains unclear, reports suggest that the couple had been
fighting. The police chief also confirmed that they received information that
the officer and his wife had issues and were quarrelling prior to this tragic
chain of events. Naturally, people were outraged, and reports have emerged that
angry residents in the area took to the streets. They set fire to tires as a
show of protest.

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Notably, Benson Imbasi,
the police constable who unleashed havoc in Kabete, is not the first case of
random police shooting in Kenya. In 2010, there was an incident involving a
police officer, in Siakago, a town which lies 74 miles northeast of Nairobi. The
officer in question had shot and killed 10 people, and two of them were his
colleagues. After the incident, he tried to kill himself as well. However, at
the time the spokesperson had reported that the individual ran out of
ammunition and was thus forced to surrender to the authorities.