{"id":920063,"date":"2022-01-27T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/27\/officer-accused-of-murdering-boss-to-remain-in-custody\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:19:10","slug":"officer-accused-of-murdering-boss-to-remain-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/officer-accused-of-murdering-boss-to-remain-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer accused of murdering boss to remain in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shs5r9hgpibcrwzefk61f29e77d4e60.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Corporal Joseph Kamau Muthunga at the Naivasha law courts where he was deemed fit to stand trial for murdering his boss sergeant Ayub Polo in Kedong ranch in Mai Mahiu. <\/strong>[Antony Gitonga, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">A police officer charged with killing his boss at Kedong ranch in Naivasha, Nakuru County on December 25 last year, will remain in custody after his bond application was opposed.\n<\/p>\n<p>Justice Grace Ngenye will, on\u00a0February 24 make a ruling on whether or not\u00a0Corporal\u00a0Joseph Kamau, accused of shooting dead Sergeant Ayub Polo, will be released on bond.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>He denied the charge and pleaded with the court to free him on reasonable bond terms.\n<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0Naivasha probation Officer Joel Kamau opposed Kamau&#8217;s bond application saying, in his report filed before the court, that his safety was not guaranteed especially because Polo&#8217;s family and friends are still grieving over his killing.<\/p>\n<p>However, the court ordered a pre-bail hearing to determine if he could be released on bond.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the fact that his family is in a position to stand for the bond, we recommend that the court defers his bond terms until such a time emotion over the officer&#8217;s death come down,\u201d reads Kamau&#8217;s report.\n<\/p>\n<p>The report further noted that the suspect, who is currently in Naivasha GK prison, had a history of alcoholism and at the time of the incident, he was highly intoxicated. <\/p>\n<p>Kamau further noted that a few days before he allegedly killed his boss, the suspect was stressed and was indulging in alcohol while working at the Kedong ranch AP camp.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe case has been profiled through the media and his security is not guaranteed,\u201d reads the report.\n<\/p>\n<p>A post-mortem on the body established that the senior officer was shot three times and died from excessive bleeding.\n<\/p>\n<p>The autopsy conducted by government pathologist Titus Ngulungu at a mortuary in Mai Mahiu town revealed that all the bullets exited the body.\n<\/p>\n<p>The report indicated that the deceased was shot on the head, shoulder, and leg leading to massive bleeding that led to the collapse of the internal organs.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001435717\/officer-accused-of-murdering-boss-to-remain-in-custody\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporal Joseph Kamau Muthunga at the Naivasha law courts where he was deemed fit to stand trial for murdering his boss sergeant Ayub Polo in Kedong ranch in Mai Mahiu. [Antony Gitonga, Standard] A police officer charged with killing his boss at Kedong ranch in Naivasha, Nakuru County on December 25 last year, will remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}