Two Kenyan Cops Handed Death Sentence for Killing MP's Bodyguard

The court has handed the death sentence to two police officers who have been found guilty of killing three people including a bodyguard attached to a Member of Parliament.

The two, Constables Benjamin Kahindi Changawa and Stanley Okoti, have been sentenced by Justice Stella Mutuku on Wednesday.

Kahindi and Okoti are accused of shooting dead police constable Joseph Obongo and two members of his family - Geoffrey Mogoi and Amos Okenye in Kangemi estate in 2014 on claims that they were robbery suspects.

Constable Obongo was the bodyguard of the then Bomachoge MP Joel Onyancha, who passed away last year.

The three were walking home from an entertainment joint in Kangemi at the time of their killing.

The two police officers had earlier been found culpable by the Independent Policing and Oversight Authority (IPOA), which 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.”