Residents of Butula in Busia Couny on Saturday burnt down an Administration Police camp in protest, after one of them allegedly died while being held at the camp's police cells.
Carston Wafula who was reportedly arrested by officers from Malibisia police camp was found lifeless in the holding cells on Friday morning, in what the residents claim was murder.
The suspect was arrested over allegations of defiling a girl and had been in the station before he was found dead with his hand cuffed to the grills.
The lifeless body of Wafula also had a bedsheets wrapped around the neck, reports the Saturday Standard.
The father of the deceased Jarston Barasa said that the officers assaulted his 20-year-old son while arresting him at their home in Bwaliro.
He narrated how they used gun butts to hit him as he cried in pain.
“My son cried when he was being arrested because police were clobbering him with gun butts. I pleaded with officers not to beat him up instead they chased me away,” he said.
The father said that he was denied the chance to see is now calling upon the Independent Policing Oversight Authority to look Into the matter.
Senior police officers from the area who visited the scene refused to comment on the matter, which comes only two years after another one of such kind.
Two years ago, the Burinda AP camp in the same sub-county was razed to the ground by irate villagers who were protesting against the killing of a bodaboda rider by an officer.