Police in Kisumu County are investigating a shocking incident in which former Siaya County Assembly Clerk, Felix Olwero, was shot dead early Monday at a pub he owned in Wang’arot, Seme Sub-county.
Confirming the incident, Kisumu County Commissioner Benson Leparmorijo said police officers from Kombewa Police Station responded to a distress call shortly after midnight following an attempted burglary at Whitehouse Resort.
According to Leparmorijo, the resort’s manager, Sandra Okech, had alerted officers that unknown thugs were trying to break into the premises for the fifth time.
Upon arrival, he said, the officers cordoned the resort from the rear and suddenly, a group of about six men armed with pangas and machetes emerged from a nearby thicket.
He added that one of the officers fired a warning shot in the air and ordered them to surrender, but they charged towards the officers.
The county commissioner said that in the ensuing confrontation, one of the attackers allegedly raised a panga to strike an officer, prompting police to open fire.
“It was then that one man, later identified as Felix Olwero, aged 50, was fatally injured.
His body was moved to Kombewa Sub-County Referral Hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem,” the county commissioner said.
Police officers have launched investigations into the incident, even as locals expressed shock over the death of Olwero, who previously served as the Clerk of the Siaya County Assembly.
By Chris Mahandara
