We have Millionaires then we have George Maina, a slum millionaire who has been behind a number of deadly attacks on innocent Kenyans and is the mastermind behind a number of high profile criminal activities within Nairobi.
Kill by the sword and die by the sword so they say. George Maina learnt this the hard way when police bullets were unleashed on him as he led his crew in an attempted robbery at a Nairobi soft drink store.
Police have described Maina, 32 as a well known criminal who has been under police survaillance for sometime now.
Police are however yet to establish if Maina had any criminal cases pending in court.
Maina is also a popular and wealthy landlord in Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Njenga slums.
Police said Maina was the man who was armed with a pistol and was manning the gates while his accomplices stormed the warehouse and stole goods worth millions of shillings.
Maina is said to be the owner of a Mitsubishi canter that the police claim to have found at the yard of Softa godowns in Industrial area and which the criminals were using to load their stolen goods.
A police report from Industrial area police station to vigilance house on the incident , stated that police officers on patrol were informed of a robbery at the godown and rushed to the scene where they were confronted by a lone gun man who shot at the policemen.
The report stated that the officers shot and killed the lone gun man and proceeded into the warehouse where they encountered another group of men armed with crude weapons including machettes , claw bars , pangas and axes and toy pistol.
The report does not however state the number of crude weapons or if each of the killed men was armed and attempted to attack police officers.
“As soon as the gang stormed in , the officers pounced on them and shot them” said a guard who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The guard claimed the men were rounded up in one corner and shot by the policemen.
At the city mortury ,.the killed men were booked as uknown. A closer look at the bodies revealed almost a similar pattern of gunshots.
All them men had multiple gunshot wounds on either the head or on their back an indication that they may have been killed while either running or lying on their stomach.