NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 1 — Two police reports on an incident involving Youth Affairs Principal Secretary Jacob Fikirini’s security detail leave a critical question unanswered: how did a confrontation described as involving warning shots end with a young man fatally shot?

📻 Breaking It Down

The first report, recorded at Pangani Police Station at 8:05 p.m., states that the incident occurred shortly after 5:00 p.m. as the Principal Secretary and his security team left Kariokor Social Hall in Kamukunji Sub-county after attending a youth sensitisation meeting.

According to the report, the convoy was “accosted by rowdy youth who surrounded and hung onto the PS’s motor vehicle… demanding for handouts.”

Police say the group, estimated at about 100 people, followed the convoy from the meeting venue, opened vehicle doors and allegedly stole mobile phones belonging to two police officers attached to the Principal Secretary’s security detail.

📌 What You Need to Know

The report further states that the vehicle’s rear windscreen was smashed with stones as the driver sped away.

According to police, the bodyguards then “fired shots in the air to disperse them” before officers on patrol intervened and stopped the crowd from pursuing the convoy further.

The Principal Secretary was later escorted safely to his residence, while one suspect, identified as Bob Moses Ogweno, was arrested and is expected to face charges.

However, a second report filed later the same night records the death of a man from multiple gunshot wounds but does not explain how, where or under what circumstances he was shot.

The report, entered at 10:00 p.m., states that Park Road Nursing Home notified police at about 9:00 p.m. that a person with gunshot wounds had been brought to the facility and later died.

Police officers who visited the hospital found Ouma’s body with two gunshot wounds to the left hand and another below the left breast, according to the report.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya