Police mistakenly shot at a vehicle assigned to the IEBC's chairman Isaak Hassan while responding to a distress call at Karen's Hardy estate on Sunday night.
Sources say the IEBC chairman's bodyguard and two other police officers who were in the vehicle rushed to answer the distress call.
A group of officers on patrol mistook them for gangsters and fired eight time at the vehicle during the 9:45 pm incident.
The officers are said to have thought Hassan's vehicle had robbers on board. Apparently, a vehicle had been snatched from its owners in the area who reported the incident to police.
The officers on patrol are said to have been pursuing the gangsters when Hassan's vehicle came speeding towards them.
Police are treating the incident as 'friendly fire' and although a report has been recorded, no action is being taken against the officers involved.
"It is a straight forward case of mistaken identity and fortunately no one was injured or killed. As is the practice, an inquest file will be opened to investigate the circumstances surrounding the shooting to establish if it could have been avoided," a senior police officer said.
Langata DCIO James Manuni visited the scene and questioned the officers before briefing his seniors. Speaking to the press, Hassan confirmed that his vehicle was shot at and that noone was injured after the driver jumped out of the vehicle, hid in a bush and identified himself as a police officer.