Thika officer shot in the throat during violent confrontation with boda boda rider

Thika DCIO Jacinta Mbaika (in purple dress) alongside senior police officers from Kiandutu and Thika Police Station outside Royale Hotel in Section 9, Thika, after retrieving a loaded Ceska pistol magazine dropped by a suspect who fatally shot a SPIV officer. [Gitau Wanyoike, Standard]

A police constable attached to the Special Police Intercept and Verification (SPIV) unit was shot dead on Tuesday evening at Cravers, Thika West Sub-county, after a routine inspection of motorcycles turned violent.