A police officer attached to a Cabinet Secretary was arrested after he lost his gun in unclear circumstances in Nairobi’s Uhuru Camp area.
The officer told his seniors he had been at a bar in Highrise after his duties and left late on Monday.
He said when he reached his residence at the Uhuru Camp he found the Ceska pistol with 12 bullets missing.
A search was mounted in the area in vain. He was later arrested and was set to appear in court to face charges of failing to secure his weapon.
The incident comes a week after a senior officer in the city lost his weapon in Utawala area and no arrest or recovery has been made.
The Senior Superintendent of Police told his colleagues he was with his friends at a club and had left going home in his car when he suddenly felt dizzy and fell asleep.He parked his car on the roadside for the sudden nap and when he woke up he realized his CZP pistol with 15 bullets was missing.
This was almost ten hours later. Police say they are investigating the incidents with an aim of recovering the weapons.
But some have had their licenses reinstated by the board.All licensed gun holders in the country are to undergo a vetting and re-registration exercise and be issued with an electronic identification document.
During the exercise, those with licenses to own guns have to appear in person with their weapons before the board.