A contingent of police officers has reportedly pitched camp at the Kibera slums after an inmate from the Kamiti Maximum Prison escaped from their custody into the densely populated slum.
According to reports, the inmate seized the opportunity after he was taken before the Kibera Law Courts on Wednesday, July 23, for a hearing and vanished from the premises in unclear circumstances.
The inmate, serving a 20-year sentence, had appeared before the court in connection with a separate armed robbery case from November 2023, where he allegedly shot and injured a man in Langata.
Despite arriving in handcuffs and under heavy guard, he somehow slipped past at least four security checkpoints and scaled a rear perimeter wall before vanishing into the dense structures of the slum.
