Cop On The Run Linked To 2015 Disappearance Incident

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 29- A warrant of arrest has been issued against Constable Carlistus Ekidor Apalia who has been on the run after he was linked to the killing of a man in May 2016.

A court in Nairobi issued the warrant on Thursday after he was linked to the disappearance of Philip Otieno Ondiro on February 1, 2015.

The officer, alongside Constables Francis Githonga, Samwel Mokaya Makori, and Alex Munene is to be charged with offence of abducting in order to murder, according to the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA).

According to investigations the four accused persons armed with guns stormed a house in Kiamaiko within Huruma, Nairobi, pulled out Ondiro, bundled him into a waiting car, and drove off.  

“The investigation established the incident amounted to criminal culpability and recommended to the ODPP; the prosecution of officers suspected of involvement. The ODPP concurred with the Authority’s recommendations that four officers be charged with the offence of abducting in order to murder,” IPOA said in a statement on Thursday.

IPOA said the case was reported by multiple sources, including the ODPP, Internal Affairs Unit of the police, as well as Ondiro’s friends. 

“Ipoa’s investigations established the incident amounted to criminal culpability and recommended to the ODPP, the prosecution of officers suspected of involvement,” Ipoa said.

“The ODPP concurred with the authority’s recommendation that the four officers be charged with the offence of abducting in order to murder.”

Under Section 258 of the Penal Code, any person who kidnaps or abducts any person in order that the person may be murdered, or maybe so disposed of as to be put in danger of being murdered, is liable to imprisonment for 10 years.