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Former police commandant murdered

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By The Standard Sports | Apr 27, 2011

By CYRUS OMBATI

A former senior deputy commissioner of police and commandant of Kenya Police Training College Mr Bernard Kimeli was on Wednessday found murdered in his house in Nairobi’s Westlands area.

Mr Kimeli who retired in March 2008 was found dead in his sitting room on Wednesday morning with stab wounds in his chest.

He was half naked when he was found lying in a pool of blood by one of his sons. Kimeli was a senior Deputy Commissioner of police at the time of his retirement, which is two ranks from that of commissioner of police.

Kimeli, 58, was alone in the house when unknown assailants attacked him on Tuesday night. His son had retired at the servant’s quarters and did not know how and who may have killed him.

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The sealed home of late Bernard Kimeli

The motive of the murder is yet to be known but several documents were stolen from the house. Several drawers there had been searched and some documents scattered in the bedroom and sitting room.

Interestingly, the killers did not steal the retired cop’s gun, which was found on the cupboard, next to where his body was lying.

The retired officer and the son had watched the Champions’ League clash between Manchester United and Schalke 04 before the later left for bed.

It was then that it is believed that the attackers arrived. Police suspect the killers must have been known to Mr Kimeli.

Kimeli stayed in government houses in Muguga Greens, which are well protected. Some senior government officers live within the same compound.

The killers gained entry into the compound through a ‘panya’ route that they created on a fence next to Kimeli’s house.

They are then believed to have knocked the door asking for it to be opened. The theory emerged after it was discovered the main metal grilled door and the second one leading to the sitting room were not broken.

Police said it was after killers had accessed the house that they attacked him by stabbing him severally on the chest.

Blood stains were all over the house an indication Kimeli may have tried to fight them and later walked to where he had placed his gun but fell and died.

Police load the body of late Bernard Kimeli

Neighbours said they did not hear any commotion or screams. His two cars that were at the parking were intact, an indication, the killers knew what they wanted.

It is his son who discovered the body on Wednesday morning and later called the police hours after the incident had happened.

He wept uncontrollably as a crowd surged outside the house.

Director of CID Ndegwa Muhoro who visited the scene said they are yet to know those who killed him and the motive behind it.

"This is murder but it is puzzling given there was no break in. it happened between midnight and this morning but officers are on the ground trying to know more," said Muhoro.

Muhoro who was in the company of Nairobi Area PPO Anthony Kibuchi and his CID counterpart Peter Muinde promised to get those behind the incident and motive.

He said some members of Kimeli’s family had traveled to his rural home on Tuesday. The body, which was wrapped in a blanket was later moved to the mortuary amid speculation on the motive and those behind it.

Some members of the family members and friends rushed to the scene on getting news of the incident.