Police Love Triangle Turns Deadly
A tragic incident unfolded on the night of Thursday, August 7, when a police officer lost his life following a confrontation with another officer over a woman in Kitengela, Kajiado County.
According to a police report, the officer who died, Constable Manaseh Ithiru, was stationed at Kitengela Police Station. He was reportedly thrown from the balcony of an apartment where he was with a woman believed to be his girlfriend.
Earlier that evening, around 7 PM, a boda boda operator had dropped him off at the apartment, and he had asked the rider to return for him later.
“It was further established that the deceased had called the bodaboda to drop him at the said apartment at around 1900hrs, and he was to pick him up later. The deceased had visited his girlfriend named Irene Wavinya Nzioka, who is also a tenant at the said apartment, room 416,” read the police report in part.
While the two were in the apartment, another officer, Sergeant Abubakar Said, who is part of the local Critical Infrastructure Police Unit stationed at the Export Processing Zone in Athi River, also stopped by to check on the lady.
A fight erupted between the two officers over the woman, and during the chaos, Constable Ithiru was overpowered and tossed out of the house through the balcony.
“While the two were inside the room another man who turned out to be a police officer No.232870 Sgt Abubakar Said attached to CIPU EPZ Camp Athi River also a boyfriend of the same lady visited her house and its believed a scuffle ensued between the two officers over the Lady where by the deceased was overpowered and thrown from the house through the balcony where he met his death,” the report revealed.
Police officers and DCI personnel who arrived at the scene discovered the lifeless body of the deceased officer, lying in a pool of blood in the apartment parking lot.
CSI personnel from Kitengela processed and documented the scene, noting that the body had sustained multiple injuries, particularly to the head.
The officer’s body was then transported to Shalom Hospital mortuary, where it will await a postmortem examination.
Sgt. Abubakar and Irene have been arrested as investigations into the murder continue.
Police Love Triangle Turns Deadly
