A former senior General Service Unit (GSU) police officer was Tuesday arrested after he allegedly shot and seriously injured his wife at their home in the Ketete area, Narok County.
Stephen Kiptanui Soi is also a former senior official at the National Olympic Committee. He is a licensed gun holder, police said.
He is said to have shot and wounded his wife who is an advocate of the High Court at their home on Tuesday, August 27 morning following an altercation.
The lawyer was injured in the left thigh and admitted at a local private hospital in stable condition, police said.
The matter was reported at the Mulot police station prompting police to visit the home.
At the scene, according to police, one spare magazine was recovered and a magazine loaded with 12 rounds of ammunition.
Soi had by then left the scene prompting a brief search for him and the Ceska pistol used in the drama.
Police said they recovered the weapon in his bedroom with a magazine that had six bullets.
A spent cartridge was also recovered from the scene, police said.
The weapon was sent for ballistic tests.
It was then the team found their former commander and told him he was under arrest.
Police said Soi, 68, will be charged for the offence of attempted murder.
It is not what prompted the gun drama at home.
Soi is not new to controversies.
In 2021, Milimani Anti-Corruption Court Chief Magistrate Elizabeth Juma found Soi guilty of three counts of abuse of office and two counts of willful failure to comply with the law relating to the management of public funds.
This was in relation to the 2016 Olympic Rio Games.
The High Court however later in January 2023 ruled Soi was innocent in the corruption case following his appeal.
Judge Esther Maina ruled him not guilty saying his defence had not been taken into consideration in the original trial in September 2021.
Soi, who was formerly a National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) official and was the country's Chef de Mission in Brazil, was initially found guilty of unlawfully approving payments of up to Sh55 million to the team.
He was ordered to pay a fine of Sh105 million or serve a 17-year jail sentence.
The original court decided that he failed to disclose that there had been a double payment to NOCK officials and that he also authorized the cancellation of plane tickets, resulting in the loss of public funds.
Soi argued that he was condemned for the cancellation of tickets despite multiple officials failing to turn up at the airport.
He said that the majority of the people were senior Government officials who were not under his authority or supervision.
In terms of the allowances, Soi found it unreasonable that athletes were set to be paid Sh20,000 per day when in London in 2012, they were paid Sh25,000.
He decided to pay them Sh27,000 daily.
Before he was dismissed from the police service together with 56 other senior officers in 2004, not so much was known about Soi, then an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP).
