What is happening in Migori county? It seems it has cemented its status as the headquarters of bad news.
In case you don’t know Migori, It is a county that lost its Senator to cancer this year. Its woman Rep was involved in a grisly road accident and is now fighting for her life in hospital.
The governor however is the man that everyone knows. Governor Okoth Obado has been charged with the murders of his girlfriend Sharon Otieono and that of their unborn son. He was recently slapped with another charge, that of illegal possession of firearms.
And now it seems his people have decided to copy their governor.Six remandees on Thursday escaped by jumping out of a moving police vehicle in Migori.
The remandees were being transported from the Rongo Law Courts to Migori GK Prison when the incident took place.
They hopped out of the vehicle at Stella in Uriri before running towards a nearby sugarcane plantation. The re-arrested duo was found deep in the plantation after a rigorous search over several hours by police officers.
Migori County Police Commander Joseph Nthenge confirmed that four of the remandees were still at large.
Noting that they escaped while still in handcuffs, Nthenge appealed to the public to volunteer any information that could lead to the remandees’ arrest.
He further announced that more officers had been deployed to search for the remandees. Nthenge remained confident that they would re-arrest the four who, it was stated, could be dangerous.
Several cases of prisoners and remandees escaping from police custody have been reported this year. Most recently, an inmate managed to make his way out of Nyeri Medium Prison in October.
“He was serving a short sentence and some are allowed to work under guard outside the prison. That is how he escaped,” Central Deputy Regional Prisons boss Stephen Kiplagat explained.