2 police officers sentenced to death for killing MP’s bodyguard

Two police officers have been sentenced to death after they were found guilty of killing three people among them a bodyguard of the late Bomachoge MP Joel Onyancha.

Police constables Benjamin Kahindi Changawa and Stanley Okoti were sentenced on Wednesday by Justice S.N. Mutuku.

The two shot and killed police constable Joseph Obongo and his two relatives; Geoffrey Mogoi and Amos Okenye in Kangemi area, Nairobi in 2014 on claims that they were robbery suspects.

The Independent Policing and Oversight Authority (IPOA) had also found the officers culpable and recommended they be charged with murder.

“Following the shooting, IPOA launched investigations on October 7, 2014 to unravel the circumstances that led to the deaths, and to establish whether the police officers were justified in the use of their firearms,” said IPOA.

“IPOA concluded investigations and recommended to the DPP, murder charges and on April 27, 2015, the DPP concurred with IPOA’s recommendations.”

The deceased were walking home from a bar in Kangemi at the time of their killing.