Following the Thursday night raid by Administration Police (AP) on Mandera Police station, more details have emerged on how the raid was conducted.
According to a statement recorded at the occurrence book at the Mandera Police station under OB 62/13/12/2018, 14 AP officers attached to the Rapid Deployment Unit(RDU) Kapendo camp stormed the police station at about 2030Hrs while recklessly firing in the air in a bid to rescue their colleague who had been arrested and locked up at the station.
The AP officer Corporal Richard Githaka Karanja was arrested over alleged involvement in robbery with violence.
The said officer was to take plea before a Mandera court on Friday 14th December 2018.
Upon arriving on the police station, the 14 AP officers forcefully demanded for the keys from the cell's sentry no. 107120 Police Constable James maina at gun point.
The officer, out of fear of being shot, handed over the keys to the AP officers who opened the male cells and released one prisoner of No. 2005007950 Corporal Richard Githaka Karanja of their RDU command.
The statement further indicated that there were eleven prisoners in the male cells, but none of them escaped as the RDU officers only rescued their own before leaving.
The incident is said to have happened in full glare of the Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD).
At the time of going to press, normalcy has been restored in the town with senior officers within the Police force, the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and IPOA flocking the police station to assess the situation.
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