Senator storms police station over son’s shooting incident
Narok Senator Stephen ole Ntutu on Thursday stormed the Narok Police Station to protest a police report implicating a man said to be his son to a shooting incident in Narok town on Wednesday night.
The senator stormed the office of the Narok police boss Mr Paul Kiogora’s at the station where he raised objections to the report that a certain Mr Alex Ntutu had attacked a bouncer and shot him following a scuffle. The senator has a son by the same name.
Police are searching for Mr Ntutu following the incident that occurred at Impact night club in Narok town at around 2 pm, following an argument between the assailant and a bar maid.
According to a report filed in the Occurrence Book at the Narok police station, Mr Ntutu was having a drink at the club when he got into an argument with a bar maid.
A confrontation had ensued forcing the management to throw him out. The assailant is, however, said to have attempted to force his way back to the club but was retrained by the bouncer.
It is then that he is said to have drawn a pistol and shot the bouncer identified as Mr Joseph Njoroge three times.
The victim was rushed to Narok Referral Hospital where he is admitted in serious condition.
According to Narok County acting police commander, the assailant fled on a boda boda after the incident.
SHOT THREE TIMES
“The argument generated to shoving and pushing as the bouncer tried to restrain the man from going back to the bar, forcing the man to draw a pistol. He shot him three times on the chest,” said Mr Kiogora.
A reveler who witnessed the drama said it had started as a simple argument between the assailant and the waiter over a bill before a fight ensued. The bouncer had to come in to help the waiter,” said a reveler who requested not to be named.
Police recovered two spent cartridges from the scene.
Mr Ntutu is a licensed gun holder. Police officers handling the case have appealed to him to surrender.
But according to the senator, his son who also goes by the same names was not at the nightclub and was nowhere near the town when the incident happened.
The enraged senator asked police to conduct thorough investigations arguing that his son was not a licensed gun holder and he was in Nairobi when the incident happened.
Police, however, maintained that it is only after the man on the run is arrested that the truth can be known.
“It is only after we arrest the man that we will ascertain who he is, but preliminary reports indicated that the person who we are tracking down is Mr Alex Ntutu. We are yet to establish if the assailant is a Senator’s son or not,” maintained the county police boss.