Two guns, 99 bullets recovered at apartment fence in Nairobi

NAIROBI, KENYA: Police have recovered
two guns with 99 bullets near a fence of a
residential apartment in Kilimani area,
Nairobi.
One of the two Ceska pistols that were
recovered on Monday morning was stolen
from a house at the apartment last Friday
in a break in incident, police said.
They were found wrapped in a green
paper bag and abandoned on the fence of
the apartment by a guard who called
police.
According to Kilimani police division boss
Peter Katam, it remains a mystery on the
source or owner of the other pistol and
bullets.
Katam said one of the pistols had been
legally issued to a businessman who is
however out of the country.
Guards at the Delight Apartments
reported unknown people broke into the
businessman’s house on October 25 and
vandalized the safe that had the weapon
with 10 bullets before escaping.
Come Monday morning, police were
called and informed there were guns
abandoned near the entrance but now
with 99 bullets.
“We do not know the source of the other
weapon and bullets. It is a mystery that
we are trying to unravel,” he said.
Katam said they intend to arrest and
charge the businessman for leaving his
gun in the house while traveling out of
the country. He added the weapons could
have caused much harm had they been
used by criminals.
“The law requires all licensed gun holders
to bring and leave their weapons at
nearest police station for safe keeping
whenever they are on trips outside the
country. We will take action for his
failures,” said Katam.
He added they have sent the weapons for
ballistic tests to establish if they had been
used in committing any crime in the city.
The recovery came weeks after police
recovered three AK 47 rifles and 87
bullets hidden in a bush near the popular
Karen Golf and Country Club in Nairobi.
Police said two of the rifles had a
magazine loaded with 30 bullets each
while one had 27 an indication the
gunmen had spent three.
Authorities say there are between
550,000 to 680,000 small arms and light
weapons in the wrong hands in the
country.

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