The National Police Service (NPS) is on the spot following an ugly incident where a journalist working with the Standard Group was assaulted by General Service Unit (GSU) officers.
The officers had been sent to calm the protests that erupted on Sunday in Molo, Nakuru County, over the murder of Richard Otieno, a renowned activist whose body was found lying in the mortuary.
Daniel Chege, a reporter operating from Nakuru County detailed that despite being on duty and following the established protocols while covering the events, the GSU officers still went ahead to inflict physical and mental injuries on him.
According to Chege, the officers attacked him and his team while he was recording an incident where one of the police officers had hit a member of the public with a stone, contrary to the provisions of law and order maintenance. ''We went to cover the protests along Njoro Molo road was hacked to death on Saturday night, and unfortunately, some GSU officers who had been teargassing the members of the public attacked us and injured me on my left arm,'' Chege narrated.
