Several Gigiri Police Officers are said to have been sent home after the infamous Kware murders suspect Collins Jumaisi Khalisia escaped from Gigiri Police station on Tuesday.
According to reports, a total of eight police officers including Gigiri OCPD were sent home on interdiction after senior police bosses from Nairobi visited the police station over the daring escape of kware suspect and twelve others.
The interdiction came after Acting Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli and Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Director Mohamed Amin visited the station when news of thirteen inmates escaping broke out.
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Reports indicate that the duo called a meeting with police officers, Gigiri OCS and OCPD to decide the next course of action and concluded the escape was most probably an ‘inside job.’
The police bosses are said to have questioned police officers who were on duty during the incident and inspected the cells where the suspects were being held before they managed to get away unnoticed.
After the meeting, the acting Inspector General and DCI director decided to send home the cops that were on duty and the Gigiri police bosses on interdiction to pave way for investigations to take place after concluding that it was an inside job.
Collins Jumaisi and twelve other suspects are said to have cut an opening through the wire mesh at the waiting bay before jumping off the perimeter wall and escaping unnoticed on wee hours of Tuesday morning.
Police Constable Gerald Mutuku, who was in charge of conducting routine cell checks together with the canteen manager realized that 13 suspects were missing before raising alarm to his seniors and the public.
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Gigiri Police Station has since been declared and cordoned off as a crime scene as investigators begin their investigations to determine the whereabouts of the thirteen individuals.