A Jericho pistol that was reported stolen from Urban sub-county Police Commander George Kingi Bamba has been recovered.
According to a police signal, the said firearm alleged to have been stolen from the police boss at gunpoint was recovered from his Kizingo home compound by his driver Silas Kimani.
"That morning, Police commander Kingi's driver was supervising a laborer namely George Some who was cutting grass in his official compound within Kizingo area, when the driver identified as constable Kimani went to his boss with news that he had just found a gun wrapped in a green disposable carrier bag at the back of the house," the police report read in part.
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A multi-agency team proceeded to the house and upon inspection recovered from the green disposable carrier bag a black Jericho pistol serial number,45303132 loaded with 15 rounds of ammunition.
The gun wrapped inside the green disposable carrier bag was found lying in the back yard of the police boss's house.
The firearm is now under the custody of the scene of the crime experts from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations for fingerprint dusting and further investigation.
Police are yet to establish how the firearm was allegedly placed in the compound of the senior police boss yet no one has been arrested in connection with the stolen firearm which was reported at the Mombasa central police station as robbery with violence.
According to an earlier police report, the gun was stolen from the police boss by 3 armed men who waylaid him while on his way back home on Tuesday night.
Coast region police commander said that the firearm was stolen from the officer at gunpoint in the Kizingo area moments after he stepped out of his car, to enquire from the occupants of a tuk-tuk on why they had blocked his way.
During the incident, the police boss was unable to capture the registration number of the tuk-tuk occupants after it sped off towards the Likoni crossing channel.
