INVESTIGATIONS into the carjacking and theft of a State House vehicle reveal glaring contradictions and inconsistencies in the version of events given by police driver David Machui.
At least nine people have so far recorded statements with the police over the stolen BMW.
Five revellers who include a waiter at New Site Bar in Utawala, Nairobi, where Machui had a drink, and the owner of the pub, have been questioned by the police as investigations focus on reconstructing the events of last Wednesday.
Machui’s wife, an AP officer at the Utawala AP Camp, has also been questioned.
Detectives have widened the scope of investigations to parts of Western Kenya, where the vehicle is said to been driven to.
A senior officer at Vigilance House, Police HQ, yesterday said Chief Inspector of Police Machui would be subjected to internal disciplinary mechanisms.
Another source said the driver might be demoted to a senior sergeant if it is established his account of the Wednesday night car theft was untruthful.
Machui’s account is inconsistent with investigators’ findings. He claims that he was carjacked while leaving a kiosk where he had gone to buy cigarettes on his way home at around 9.30pm, but investigators have concluded that he may have been attacked long after midnight.
According to Machui’s statement at Kayole police station, he left the Presidential Escort housing quarters at Highridge at 7pm and got to the Utawala shopping centre at around 8pm and parked the car outside a building 500 metres from his home.
He dashed into a kiosk to buy cigarettes and returned to the car. He found four strangers leaning on the car. There was a brief commotion when one of the four demanded Machui hand over the car keys. But Machui slapped him instead. At that point, three new thugs, who were armed, emerged from the darkness, with pistols and an AK-47.
They ordered him to drive out of the estate towards the city centre and after a short while they took control of the vehicle and bundled him into the back seat. They drove to town and abandoned him at 2am near an AP post in Utawala.
The criminals had stripped him naked and so he went into a home where good samaritans helped him with clothes.
He got a phone in the home and called his wife, who rushed to the scene with AP officers and rescued him. They drove to Ruai police station and reported the matter.
- the-star.co.ke
