School Children Hailed For Handing Over A Rifle Found Left On The Road To Police

KAKAMEGA, Kenya, Aug 30- Three school children have been applauded by security agencies in Kakamega County for their courageous action after they picked a rifle along the road and presented it to a police station.

The three, one aged 14 and two others aged 12 picked up the G3 rifle along the busy Kisumu Kakamega road as they went to school on Tuesday morning.

According to police, the G3 rifle serial number KE AP A04334A was found unattended along Kisumu Kakamega highway about 300 metres south of Ikolomani police patrol base by three pupils heading to Shikondi primary school at about 0650 hours.

They are Brian Shikutwa (14), Godreen Inida and Sabastian Imela, both aged 12 years old.

The rifle was loaded with 20 rounds of ammunition when it was collected.

Police officers from Ikolomani patrol base accompanied went to the scene and established from the members of the public that there was an unknown police officer spotted seemingly drunk.

Members of the public said the officer was along the road while staggering and boarded a bodaboda and drove towards Sigalagala.

While still at the scene, the officers received information their colleague had been spotted around Mukumu Boys High School while staggering.

“A good Samaritan picked and dropped him at Sigalagala bus stage whereby he was picked and taken to Ikolomani patrol base,” reads the report.

He was identified as Edwin Japheth Owino a prison warden attached to Vihiga Prisons and that he was deployed at Mukulusu Primary School in Kakamega East for the gubernatorial elections in Kakamega county.

By Tuesday evening, the officer remained at Ikolomani Police base to record a statement after he sobered up.