{"id":27429,"date":"2016-08-04T02:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-ex-officer-sought-after-police-find-3-ak47\/"},"modified":"2016-08-04T02:22:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T02:22:36","slug":"kenya-ex-officer-sought-after-police-find-3-ak47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-ex-officer-sought-after-police-find-3-ak47\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Ex-officer sought after police find 3 AK47 rifles in Ruiru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Police raided a house of the former GSU officer in Githurai 45, Nairobi but he escaped.}<\/p>\n<p>Police found three AK47 rifles, 178 rounds of ammunition and nine rifle magazines in a river near Thome Primary School in Kiambu County.<\/p>\n<p>Ruiru Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss David Chebii said they are pursuing a former General Service Unit (GSU) officer in connection to the find.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chebii said they raided the house of the former officer in Githurai 45, Nairobi but he escaped.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-officer has been identified as Constable Eric Ngethe Kanyigi and is alleged to have deserted duty in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The officer, who joined the service in 2012, is believed to be an Al-Shabaab sympathiser and was allegedly targeting GSU Recce unit headquarters in Ruiru.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes a fortnight after a report indicated that some officers serving in key security agencies have been radicalised or are terrorist sympathisers.<\/p>\n<p>Other reports show that sensitive counter terrorism strategies have been leaked to terrorists by the officers, undermining the government\u2019s efforts and even risking the lives of other officers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, officers from the main security agencies\u2014the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), the National Intelligence Service (NIS), National Police Service, and Kenya Prisons Service\u2014were terrorist sympathisers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13961 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/guns.jpg\" alt=\"Three AK47 rifles,178 rounds of ammunition and 9 AK47 rifle magazines displayed by police in Ruiru, Kiambu County. Police are pursuing an ex-GSU officer over the find. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Police raided a house of the former GSU officer in Githurai 45, Nairobi but he escaped.} Police found three AK47 rifles, 178 rounds of ammunition and nine rifle magazines in a river near Thome Primary School in Kiambu County. Ruiru Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss David Chebii said they are pursuing a former General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27429"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27429"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}