Two police officers have been arrested after a foreigner accused of committing murder escaped from custody under their watch.
According to reports the foreigner who is a Ugandan was locked up in Kiamaciri Police Station after he was arrested for allegedly killing a woman in a home where he worked as a farm boy in November last year.
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Reports indicate that the man was scheduled to appear in court this week but family members who spoke to the press claimed that he was helped to escape from police custody on Friday.
“The man committed the crime and later vanished. He was arrested and given 14 days before appearing in court. Now he is nowhere to be found.”
So far, the two police officers who were on duty were arrested after family members and villagers gathered outside the station demanding for justice after realising the suspect was nowhere to be found.
According to other family members who interrogated the suspect before arrest, they say the Ugandan blamed evil spirits for his heinous act and refuted claims that he was hired to commit the crime.
Relatives claim that they were told that the suspect escaped by breaking the station door, an explanation they have trashed claiming that the station could not show any damages, adding that it was an inside job.
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The suspect is said to have been on the run since he committed the murder and was arrested in Nairobi with the victim’s phone being found in his aunt’s house before the arrest.