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Investigators at Nairobi North Regional Sub-County on Wednesday recovered two firearms from bodyguards attached to Youth Affairs PS Fikirini Jacobs following fatal shooting of youth mobiliser on Tuesday evening.
It is alleged that Cecil Ouma, 28, was shot dead by an aide attached to the PS after a youth empowerment programme at Kariokor in Nairobi. Ouma was allegedly pushed from the vehicle belonging to the PS with gunshot wounds and later died at Park Road Nursing home.
Detectives said so far seven people have recorded statements among them two bodyguards and one director from the Ministry of Youth Affairs who was in the same car with the PS at the time of the incident. "We recovered the guns so that they can be taken for ballistic examination to ascertain which one released the ammunition," a senior detective said.
The detective added that the Principal Secretary was expected to at Nairobi Regional Police headquarters over the matter as they were still deliberating how to handle the bodyguards. Ouma was among the youth mobilised to attend the youth empowerment forum at Kariokor attended by the PS on Tuesday.
