Police officers have arrested a former jail official in connection with the brutal murder of two senior prison officers in Transmara, Narok County,
The suspect was apprehended in the Maasai Mara National Park, where he is said to have lived with animals in the jungle.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) apprehended Pius Lemiso Ndiwa, alias Shonimeu, around 11 p.m. on Tuesday after he escaped a police dragnet for days. Ndiwa was interrogated at Kilgoris.
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This arrest comes after two jail guards were murdered in Olemismis village after being called to resolve a Sacco-related dispute with Ndiwa last week.
The deceased, Inspector Patrick Mukunyi Kuya, and Senior Sergent Daniel Nairimo departed Nairobi on Wednesday in pursuit of what police in the prisons department claim was a settlement with Ndiwa, who defaulted on a debt and fled to the countryside.
When they arrived at Ndiwa's farmstead in Mentinkuar, they were met with hostility by the suspect's relatives, who yelled. Ndiwa supposedly informed his family that the two people in their home were gangsters.
As a result, Ndiwa's two sons attacked the two prison wardens, who were dressed in civilian costumes with arrows and machetes.
“We arrived at the scene and we found two bodies badly mutilated, one had three arrows lodged on his back and the other had deep cuts on his back,” Kilgoris OCPD Jamleck Ngaruiya said then.
Ndiwa's wife, however, claims her husband was not there during the event.
