A police officer was arrested on Sunday after he reported he had lost his pistol in unclear circumstances in a bar in Kehancha town, Migori County.
The corporal of
police attached to the Kuria DCI offices had been to a bar in the area in the
company of a female reveller when he realised his Duma pistol with 15 bullets
had gone missing.
The woman he
was with was arrested after the Sunday incident at 9 pm.
A search was conducted, but the weapon was not found.
A stranger was
earlier seen engaging with the two before she vanished, and it is suspected that she stole
the weapon.
It was then that the officer reported the matter and was detained together with the woman as investigations go on, police said.
Police said a search
was conducted in the area in vain.
Meanwhile, detectives are investigating the ownership of a shotgun that was recovered from a farm in a village in Msambweni, Kwale County.
A 15-year-old boy who was cultivating a farm in Munje village said he stumbled on the firearm on August 8.
Police were called to the scene and declared the weapon was serviceable.
The weapon was taken for ballistic tests to establish the ownership, if any.
Cases where licensed firearm holders are losing their weapons have been on the rise. They are under probe.
For instance, police said a
businessman was attacked and robbed of his pistol in an incident in Garissa
Town.
The victim is a licensed gun holder. He told police that on August 5, he was attacked by three men in the Buriburis area as he walked from a mosque to his home.
The incident, he said, happened at about 8 pm. He added that one of his
attackers was armed with an AK47 rifle, a pistol and crude weapons and had
covered their faces.
The attackers seemed to have been waiting for him before they struck him in the head. He fell unconscious before the gang ransacked him and grabbed his Glock 17 pistol with 14 bullets and Sh3,000 he had.
The attackers escaped the scene, and when the victim gained consciousness,
he found them gone.
Police said they are investigating the incident and that no arrest or recovery had been made.
