A police officer was shot and injured by his colleague in a standoff outside the Nairobi residence of South Sudan President Salva Kiir.
Constable Denis Okenye is nursing a gunshot wound in his right thigh after he was on Tuesday February 25 night shot by his colleague at the compound, police said.
The incident happened on Tuesday night along Gigiri Road after a dramatic chase.
President Kiir, like many other foreign presidents has several properties in the city, which are guarded by armed police officers.
Two police officers from Gigiri police station were on patrol in the area along Gigiri Road when they came across a man smoking bhang at the wall of the residence of Kiir at about 8pm, police explained.
The man who is claimed to have been smoking bhang was then sitting under a shade at the edge of the perimeter wall.
This forced the two police officers to approach him to arrest him over the claims of smoking bhang.
Okenye and his colleague said as they approached him, the suspect stood up and started running away defying their orders to stop.
When the police officers challenged him to stop or they shoot him, he responded by firing at the officers whereby he shot one of them in the right hip.
He then vanished to the compound as the other colleague sought help to evacuate his injured colleague to the hospital.
He did not fire at the suspect who then escaped.
It is not clear if the officer from the General Service Unit was then in his official uniform.
Senior police officers visited the scene and commenced an investigation leading to the arrest of one of the police officers guarding the home.
It was established he was the one who shot and injured his colleague in the drama, police said.
He was disarmed and detained at the Gigiri police station pending further investigations.
His Ceska pistol was confiscated for ballistic tests and analysis as part of the probe into the shooting.
The injured officer was admitted at the MP-Shah hospital in a stable condition, police said.
Police usually know the property of various VIPs and which are guarded by their armed colleagues.
