25 July 2007
Nairobi — A Ministry of Health employee has been arrested in Webuye on suspicion of trading in firearms.
Police yesterday laid a trap for the clinical officer attached to Webuye hospital after a tip-off and allegedly found a pistol in his possession.
According to Webuye East district commissioner Julius Ngumo, police approached the health worker and asked to buy a firearm.
The clinical officer, believing that he had secured a good deal, walked right into the police trap after removing the pistol from where he had hidden it.
In Eldoret, the Government was yesterday criticised by North Rift leaders over insecurity. The leaders, among them former Eldoret South MP Joseph Misoi, called on the Government to investigate claims that a terror group allegedly sponsored by a politician was harassing Uasin Gishu residents.
Meanwhile, a road construction company yesterday suspended its operations in Marakwet after its workers were attacked by gangsters. Six gunmen raided the residential base of Maiguria General Constructors Ltd and fired indiscriminately.
And a fire destroyed property worth Sh1 million at Kaspsowar Boys Secondary School. In Kakamega, a woman was stabbed to death in what police suspect is a love affair gone sour.
Acting divisional police chief Patrick Safari said the body of the 19-year-old woman was found yesterday near a shop in Mukhonje sub-location.
In Mumias, a man in search of his girlfriend was killed by a mob when he allegedly hugged a pastor's wife whom he mistook for his lost love. The man hugged the woman when she opened the door of her house, but she raised the alarm.
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