- Details indicate that Officer Ben Oduor was hit by a speeding police vehicle during the protests and not by a stone as earlier reported.
- Oduor of Keroka Police Station in Nyamira was on duty during the mass protests.
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It is now emerging that a cop who has reported death as a result of being stoned during Azimio demos in Kisumu could have died of something else.
New details claim that Officer Ben Oduor was hit by a speeding police vehicle during the protests and not by a stone as earlier reported.
Oduor of Keroka Police Station in Nyamira was on duty during the mass protests.
According to a police report earlier, the late Oduor sustained injuries during the Azimio protest within the Lakeside City last week on Thursday and succumbed to the injuries when rushed to Aga Khan Hospital while at the ICU.
The police report indicated that Oduor while accompanied by other officers were overwhelmed by the charging rioters while at the Jamia Supermarket area.
The regional police boss Noah Mwivanda told some journalists that the deceased was hit with a stone using a catapult during the process and sustained injuries.
However, fresh details are contradicting a police report.
Sources aware of what transpired confide that the deceased was run over by a police vehicle when he missed a step to board the vehicle as they were running away from the angry protestors.
The police left him there and went back to the station to get more stock of the teargas canisters.
"Alikimbia kuingia kwa gari mbele, gari ilikua imetoka so everybody was following the vehicle. So Ben akienda kuboard mbelee, he missed a step akaangunka. Right leg ikaingia chini ya gari, gari ikampita juu," a witness of the incident, who sought anonymity, told NTV.
A postmortem report conducted at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital, seen by NTV, appeared to collaborate with the revelations by the witness.
The report confirmed that indeed the deceased was not hit with a stone or sustained any injury on the chest.
The report revealed that the officer's hip borne was broken entirely and his leg was shattered from the incident.
NTV further said a family source also revealed to them that the deceased phone which was in his pocket was also broken, and shattered.
Thus raising eyebrows at how one stone that is said to have hit him broke his leg, hip borne and phone that was in the pocket.
The police had earlier said that already two people have been arrested in connection with the officer's death.
The police boss Mwivanda has since transferred from the region.