Top officers 'bungled Baragoi operation'

Former Samburu North Deputy OCPD Benson Makori testifies at Nakuru High Court yesterday in a case involving seven Turkana community leaders accused of murdering 42 police officers. [PHOTO: KIPSANG JOSEPH/standard]

A senior police officer has claimed that provincial officers meddled with the police operation in Baragoi in which 42 officers were killed by Turkana gunmen.

Former Samburu police boss Benson Makori said yesterday that provincial bosses led by the then Provincial Commissioner Osman Warfa and police boss John M’Mbijiwe interfered with the operation by the Government at the District level to recover the 501 cattle stolen from the Samburu.