Two police officers nursing injuries after a fight with KDF
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KDF officer assaults two police officers at Likoni Ferry after a scuffle involving a private guard
KDF officer assaults two police officers at Likoni Ferry after a scuffle involving a private guard.
Two police officers and a private security guard are nursing injuries after being involved in a fight with members of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF).
The KDF special operations brigade was headed to the Kenya Navy Mtongwe base when they faced off with the police at the Likoni Ferry Island.
According to sources, the army men attacked the guard attracting the attention of a police officer.
When they went to find out the cause of the initial scuffle, the KDF officers turned their rage on the police officer, whose colleagues showed up to defend him.
Members of the public at a point sided with the police, hurling projectiles at the KDF officers.
The soldiers were heard in another instance accusing the police of charging their rifles against them thus prompting their violent reaction.
The injured officers and guards were taken to hospital as investigators started their probe.
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The incident came a few days after another drama between the police and KDF officers in Turkana county.
The drama ensued in Lodwar on April 17, after an officer attached to the Lodwar Police Station manning a roadblock faced it rough at the hands of a group of army men.
The KDF officers onboard their water truck demanded the officer remove the roadblock for them to pass.
But the cops’ delay would irk the KDF soldiers, who descended on the officer with a slap before seizing his firearm, prompting a reaction from Lodwar Police Station.
The aggrieved officer’s colleagues rushed to arrest the KDF officers whose efforts to resist arrest proved futile as the law enforcers took them to the station.
What would follow was the detained soldiers’ colleagues storming the Lodwar Police Station to demand their release.
It took the intervention of Turkan Central Sub-County police commander Samwel Boit, who engaged the soldiers’ bosses and calmed them down.
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