This archive report was first published on 24 August 2021.
On a fateful Sunday night, a police officer stationed at the Njoro Police station descended into madness, leaving a trail of death and destruction in his wake.
Police Constable Bernard Sivo, 28, first attacked his 29-year-old girlfriend, Mary Nyambura, in their house, breaking her right leg.
Undeterred, Nyambura sought treatment at the Njoro sub-county Hospital, where Sivo arrived at around midnight, armed with an AK-47 rifle and in a fit of rage.
According to eyewitness Vincent Lematoo, a security officer at the hospital, Sivo pushed him aside and began shooting immediately.
"He got here at 12 am, an hour after the lady. He pushed me to get out of his way in, and he began shooting immediately," Lematoo recounted.
Tragically, Sivo pumped 10 bullets into Nyambura, killing her on her hospital bed. Medics who were attending to her scampered to safety as Sivo left the facility while shooting in the air.
"It is a sad morning in Njoro. We had an incident at around 0023hours where the OCS Njoro received information of a patient who had gone to the hospital to seek medication after being assaulted by a person she claimed was her boyfriend," Njoro Subcounty Police Commander Jonathan Kisaka confirmed.
After leaving the hospital, Sivo went home, where he again shot once in the air, informing his wife that he had killed the person with whom she had been having differences.
The wife fled to safety, and Sivo returned to the Njoro police station while shooting in the air. A team was deployed to disarm him, but before they could, Sivo shot himself in the chin.
The bodies of the two were taken to the Egerton University morgue pending post-mortem. Police said they are yet to establish the motive of the incident.
