NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 11- A woman who shares her middle name with fugitive police officer Corporal Caroline Chemutai Kangogo and was recently a victim of an alleged mistaken identity incident has come out to tell her story, three days after she escaped death by a whisker.
She narrated of how her screams delayed a last bullet that would have ended her life and how a last-minute intervention by police officers on patrol saved her. The police got attracted by her screams.
Phanice Chemutai Juma sustained a gunshot wound, after a licensed firearm holder who alleged to have mistaken her for the killer cop shot her.
When the man now identified by police as Ken Mayundo fired the shot, she did not immediately tell she had been hit.
“I only heard of a loud bang,” she told Shahidi News.
But in a turn of events, Chemutai told Shahidi News it is the man who had approached her in a suggestive manner and kept on insisting that they should meet.
The incident happened in Trans-Nzoia County.
“I am a new person in this area and I have never had any relationship with the man. I even don’t know him,” she said.
“The man had taken my phone number early in the day while I was running my errands. And after I shared with him, he kept on calling me and insisting that we should meet.”
This is contrary to what the man who is now under police investigations said after the incident.
Corporal Caroline Kangogo. Photo/Courtesy
While Mayundo said they had exchanged conctacts in the past, Chemutai said it was on the very day, July 8, when the incident happened.
“When I got to my room on that fateful evening, the man kept on calling. All along, I would see him on the corridor of our premises,” she said.
It was about 8.40pm.
“I decided to go talk to him while in the company of our caretaker. When we got there, he requested that we talk in private after identifying that I am Chemutai,” she said.
“While in the car, she turned against me and said he has been looking for me and that he wanted to kill me.”
Police who were on patrol and got attracted to her screams, came to her rescue.
They took her to the police station, where they also assisted in giving her first aid, since she was bleeding.
She had been shot on her lower abdomen. Police confiscated the firearm and arrested Mayundo.
Chemutai is currently receiving treatment at the Kitale Level Four hospital.
Meanwhile, days after Kangogo went into hiding, police have not managed to nab her.
Kangogo is accused of killing a colleague in Nakuru police station where she was based and her boyfriend in Juja, Kiambu County.
It is not yet established what triggered her fury and whether she is mentally fit. Police have since declared her armed and dangerous and urged Kenyans, especially men, to be vigilant.
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