This archive report was first published on 16 July 2021.
On Wednesday, police in Langas, Eldoret, arrested one of their officers, Police Constable John Ouko, on allegations of sexually abusing a student he had arrested.
Ouko, who is attached to Langas Police Station, had arrested the 20-year-old student for not wearing a mask, a requirement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to a police report filed at Langas post, the student, who attends Eldoret National Polytechnic, alleged that Ouko handcuffed him and led him to his house inside the police quarters, where he sodomized him.
The student further alleged that Ouko then gave him Sh200 to buy his silence.
As reported in the police report, dated July 16, 2021, at 16:30 hours, Ouko allegedly said: “...Today at around 1630hrs, a police officer stationed at Langas police station namely PC John Ouko arrested him for not putting on mask and handcuffed him and diverted him into his room within police quarters and sodomized him. He thereafter gave him Sh.200 telling him not to disclose the matter to anybody,”
The officer was promptly detained as investigations gathered pace.
Police officers escorted the student to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret for a medical examination.
