New details have emerged on a possible inside job at Gigiri Police station after several witnesses and phone records revealed that police officers helped Collins Jumaisi and twelve others to escape from jail.
According to new details report by a witness who is a fellow detainee who saw everything in first hand, the officers on duty seemed unusually lenient, allowing collins Jumaisi to keep money in his possession, a rare occurrence in Kenyan police cells.
The witness also revealed how around midnight, the duty officer conducted a roll call, after which he left the cell doors unlocked. This careless act provided Jumaisi and the other detainees with the perfect opportunity to escape.
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Further, he narrated that all 13 suspects, including Jumaisi, were already outside their cell cubes when he arrived at the station around 9pm. Jumaisi had been unchained, his cell door opened, and the handcuffs that had restrained him were found discarded in his empty cell.
The witness also claimed he saw one of the Eritrean detainees hand money to the police officers before they announced they were heading to the canteen. One of the officers who is a corporal, he alleged, appeared to be intoxicated.
Shockingly, Jumaisi and the other suspects did not escape to the night but simply walked out of the police station through the front door after the officers strategically helped them with their daring escape.
Reports also indicate that DCI have obtained mobile phone records and financial transactions of the police officers who were on duty that night and CCTV footage from neighbouring premises to piece together the events that led to the escape.
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DCI is also expected to offer a huge cash reward to anyone with information about the suspects’ whereabouts as five police officers implicated in the escape, including a corporal and several constables, continue to be detained across various police stations.