MAN SHOT BY POLICE IN MANDERA

BY ADOW JUBAT

 
 Pic. Ibrahim Hussein recuperating in Mandera hospital

A man was Friday night shot after security officers on patrol in the insecurity prone Mandera town run into a group of youths who were sneaking in the country from the neigbouring Bulla-Xawa.

According to police sources sorting for protection and who were among officers on the nigh patrol team, a dozen of youths who were entering Mandera from Somalia side disregarded orders to stop by the security patrol team prompting the officers to fire at them.

“We fired at the youth as we suspected they belonged to the trouble causing militia. One of them sustained gun shots as the others scampered for safety in the darkness,” said the officer who doesn’t want to be named since his rank is lower than gazette officers, who are authorize to speak to the media.

The middle age victim was taken to Mandera referral hospital by the police where he is admitted and undergoing treatment despite been chained on his hospital bed as he is it to be interrogated further.

Speaking to the Standard the victim, Ibrahim Hussein said they were only three youths who had gone to collect a phone from a friend before the police appeared from nowhere at around 8:30pm and shot at them unprovoked.

“We saw the people who thought to be officers coming toward us and decided to lie down on our stomachs before we heard gunshots aimed at our direction forcing us to run for our lives. It is only I realized I was shot in the buttocks,” He noted.

Medical record of the patient at the hospital indicates that Hussein sustained left gluteus injury where a bullet entered his right buttock before exiting in the left.

Meanwhile Mandera Police Commander, Noah Mwivanda said no stone will be left unturned in search for the perpetrators of the last Saturday macabre killings of 28 Kenyans.

While addressing a special police unite established following the killing of 28 Kenyans to provide armed escorting to buses plying the militia infested Mandera-Nairobi road  town , the County police chief the security agencies in the area will remain firm in avoid a reapeat of what happened last week.

Mwivanda said both PSV and personal vehicles had been discouraged from using the dangerous borderline road and instead use the Mandera – Rhamu - Elwak route until security in Omar Jillo is restored.

However, the drivers prefer using the al-Shabaab infested Arabia-Lafey-Elwak road because of its smoothness, while compared to Mandera-Rhamu road.