Police Officers who were arrested and arraigned in court after helping Killer Collins Jumaisi Khalisia and twelve other foreigners to escape have finally been freed.
According to reports, the five polics officers of Gigiri Police station were freed on Thursday by Magistrate Martha Naanzushi on a Sh200,000 personal bond each of the officers.
Magistrate Naanzushi declined an application by the police and prosecution to detain the officers for 14 days saying there were no compelling reasons to warrant the same.
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However, the Magistrate ordered the five to be reporting to the DCI twice a week as their counterparts, the police cobtinue their investigations into their hand in helping thirteen inmates escape from the cells.
According to Officer Benedict Kaulu, who is leading the investigation, statements from over five witnesses are still pending. The officers’ mobile phones have been sent to the cybercrime unit for forensic analysis, and CCTV footage from the station is also under review.
This comes after new details emerged that Collins Jumaisi and his fellow inmates did not escape in the night but were facilitated by police officers who looked the other way as they walked out of the cells through the front gate.
Information gathered by NewsProjector is that the DCI has now offered a significant cash reward for any information that could lead to the re-arrest of Jumaisi and his accomplices who are yet to be traced.
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However, speculations and reports have revealed that money might have changed hands to facilitate the escape with detectives zeroing in on the mobile phone records and financial transactions of the police officers who were on duty that night.