A police officer is nursing a gunshot wound in the thigh after he was shot and seriously injured by his colleague in a standoff outside the residence of a property associated with South Sudan President Salva Kiir in Nairobi.
The incident happened on Tuesday night along Gigiri Road after a dramatic chase.
Police said two police officers from Gigiri police station were on patrol in the area when they came across a man smoking bhang at the wall of the residence of Kiir at about 8pm.
The man who is claimed to have been smoking the prohibited product was then sitting under a shade at the edge of the perimeter wall.
This forced the two police officers to approach him to arrest him over the claims of smoking bhang.
The two cops said as they approached him, the suspect stood up and started running away defying their orders to stop.
When the police officers challenged him to stop or they shoot him, he responded by firing at the officers whereby he shot one of them in the right hip.
He vanished to the compound as the other colleague sought help to evacuate his injured colleague.
It is not clear if the officer was then in his official uniform.
We could not get a comment from the officer or a colleague he was with at that moment.
Senior police officers visited the scene and commenced an investigation leading to the arrest of one of the police officers guarding the home.
It was established he was the one who shot and injured his colleague in the drama, police said.
He was disarmed and detained at the Gigiri police station pending further investigations.
His Ceska pistol was taken for ballistic tests and analysis as part of the probe into the shooting.
Nairobi Regional police commander George Sedah said there is a team investigating a shooting incident that happened in Gigiri area under unclear circumstances.
The injured officer was admitted at the MP-Shah hospital in a stable condition, police said.
