A Nairobi court has released five police officers blamed for aiding the escape of a suspected serial killer, Collins Jumaisi, and 12 others from Gigiri Police Station on a Kes 200,000 personal bond each.

Magistrate Martha Nazushi directed the officers to provide a contact each to execute a Kes100,000 bond.

They were released following the prosecution's application to allow the detention of the suspects for an additional fourteen days to aid a DCI-led investigation.

The magistrate said the Prosecution failed to present compelling grounds to warrant the continued detention of the officers.

Police consider Juamaisi, a prime suspect in a spate of murders in Nairobi’s Kware area.

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The magistrate dismissed the Public Prosecutor’s case that the DCI had yet to retrieve surveillance footage for forensic investigations and that the five had yet to record their statements.

James Gachoka had told the court that the five, Corporal Ronald Babo and Constables Evans Kipkirui, Mollent Achieng, Zachary Nyabuto, and Gerald mutuku, aided the escape of thirteen detainees, including Jumaisi.

This development came even as the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) promised a “significant cash reward” for recapturing Jumaisi.