GSU officer guarding Salva Kiir’s Nairobi home arrested for shooting Gigiri police
The officer is in police custody after he allegedly shot and an injured officer on patrol after he was found smoking Marijuana.
A General Service Unit (GSU) officer attached to South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s Nairobi home is in police custody after he allegedly shot and injured an officer on patrol after he was found smoking Marijuana.
In the incident that happened yesterday night around 8 pm, two police officers from Gigiri police station were on patrol when they found the GSU officer outside the perimeter wall of the South Sudan president smoking the prohibited substance.
The GSU officer, who it is yet to be established whether he was donned in his uniform or not, was approached by the two officers who wanted to arrest him over the claims but he stood and started running defying orders to stop.
The officers challenged him to stop or be shot and the GSU officer responded by firing at them shooting one of them on the right hip.
The GSU officer then vanished into Kiir’s compound after the shooting as the other officer sought help to rescue the injured colleague.
The injured officer was taken to MP-Shah Hospital where he is currently admitted in a stable condition.
The president’s home was earlier today visited by senior police officers who begun investigations leading to the arrest of the GSU officer believed to have been involved in the shootout.
The GSU officer was disarmed the Ceska pistol taken for ballistic tests and he is being detained at the Gigiri police station pending investigations.
In Kenya, the cultivation, sale, and use of bhang is prohibited by law.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Control Act criminalises the possession and distribution of cannabis, with strict penalties in place for offenders.
However, the prevalence of bhang consumption in Kenya and across the world has led to calls for the drug to be legalised.
