- He armed himself and threatened to shoot his alleged girlfriend, reveller and staff in the bar, police said.
- The warden had also held staff and revellers at the bar hostage for hours as he quarrelled with a woman believed to be his girlfriend.
A prison warden was disarmed and arrested in a gun drama in a bar in Kericho Town.
This is after he armed himself and threatened to shoot his alleged girlfriend, reveller and staff in the bar, police said.
The warden had also held staff and revellers at the bar hostage for hours as he quarrelled with a woman believed to be his girlfriend.
Police were called to the scene and established the warder attached to Kericho Main Prison picked a quarrel with his girlfriend who is a barmaid at the said joint.
The warder claims he found her with another man. Other witnesses denied the claims to police.
According to police, he immediately boarded a bodaboda to the Majengo area where he resides and picked up a G3 rifle and went back to the said joint, cocked his weapon and threatened to kill.
This caused tension and fear given it came a day after a police officer shot and killed two people including a barmaid and the owner of a club in Nakuru Town.
Police officers arrived and sweet-talked him to surrender while others scaled the perimeter wall into the bar.
Police said they surrounded him and managed to disarm him.
He was later arrested and taken into custody.
Police said they are investigating the drama and the warder was expected in court.
Some prison wardens and police at times keep their weapons in their houses, which officials term illegal and dangerous.
Police believe the case could be linked to trauma which is on the rise in both the National Police Service and the Kenya Prisons Service among others.
This came as a police officer was arrested after shooting dead two people in a bar over a Sh13,000 bill on December 13.
The officer attached to Kaptembwa police station was produced in court and detained for 21 days as investigations into the murder continue.
Two other victims are fighting for their lives in hospital in the area.
The deceased women have been mourned and described as hardworking.
Both Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki and Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome have condemned the incident.
They asked the police to live within their means.