Final Moments Of Man Shot 36 Times In Broad Daylight

This is as video footage showed the moment Otieno was surrounded by 10 men who rained bullets on him on Friday, September 23, footage which was not published by the media for the safety of the informant.

Marvin Chege Marvin Chege
Oct 4, 2022 - 10:31 Updated: Oct 4, 2022 - 10:31
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Final Moments Of Man Shot 36 Times In Broad Daylight
Police officers pictured at a scene of a crime as residents look on. /FILE

The late Kevin Otieno, who was sprayed with 36 bullets by armed men in broad daylight at Nairobi's Utawala estate, had left a local supermarket in the company of a woman on the fateful day.

This is as video footage showed the moment Otieno was surrounded by 10 men who rained bullets on him on Friday, September 23, footage which was not published by the media for the safety of the informant.

Witnesses revealed that Otieno and the woman were walking toward his one-bedroom apartment in Mihang’o, Nairobi when he received a phone call that was so long that it drew the attention of many people within the vicinity.

“That day he was dressed in shorts and in the company of a woman. He did not board a motorbike even though he loved doing it,” a man who was the last to see him alive, revealed to the Nation.

A man carrying a gun. /FILE

One of the people who eavesdropped on the conversation recalled the victim continuously summoning an unknown individual on the other side of the call to his house. Meanwhile, the woman who was with Otieno stood at a distance as he sat after he stopped walking, continuing the phone call.

It was after the 30-minute conversation that two cars appeared out of the blue, both of which were established to have been the same ones that had on the wee morning hours (3 am) of the fateful day used by the gunmen who abducted his brother from his residence in Mwiki, Kasarani.

The cars, a white Land Cruiser and a grey double cabin Toyota Hilux, were being driven at high speed, with their occupants, according to another witness, commanded by an individual to accost Otieno.

The victim tried to run away but the gunmen jumped out of their vehicles and shot him from the back as he was holding on to a mason working at a nearby construction site and who escaped unhurt.

“The gunmen quickly followed Otieno to where he was lying and continued shooting at him. Everyone was shocked as the gunshots rent the air,” another witness recalled.

The footage showed the front doors of the white Land Cruiser flung open and some activities from three men which were not captured clearly occurred. Some of the gunmen had chased down the woman who was with Otieno and captured her, ordering her to keep quiet to avoid attracting attention before bundling her into the vehicle.

Meanwhile, two of the gunmen were standing a few metres from where Otieno was lying and continued pumping more bullets into his body. One of the men was seen trying to confirm that he was dead.

Another man, from the Land Cruiser, walked and joined those who were spraying Otieno with bullets while issuing some instructions. Another witness recalled that one of them even went to the extent of shooting him in the eyes before driving away.

Before they drove off, the gunmen asked two men, who were near the scene of the shooting as it happened, to surrender their mobile phones. They took the gadgets and sprayed them with bullets before leaving the scene.

A senior detective with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) added to the media that Otieno's brother, Alfred Odhiambo, was using his Toyota Premio when he was abducted by armed men. 

“Those who sprayed the vehicle with the bullets believed that it was Otieno who was driving it and not his brother,” the detective told Nation. The brother however survived and his car was towed to the Kasarani Police Station.

Odhiambo was later found by police on Thursday, September 29, in Thika town and claimed that he was locked up in a house without meeting anyone for nearly a week.

According to reports, Otieno was a close ally of Joseph Ng’endo Njau, who was eyeing the Njiru ward seat on a Jubilee ticket but was killed before the August 9 general elections. His body was found in the Kijabe forest alongside that of the “Kasarani three” – Frank Obegi, Elijah Omeke and Moses Nyachae.

Collage image of the late Frank Obegi. /FILE

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