A police officer in Nairobi is nursing injuries following a shootout between him and another officer attached to the General Service Unit (GSU).

According to a police report, the injured officer of the police constable rank was shot after he encountered two suspects smoking bhang along Gigiri Road in Nairobi.

Following the encounter, the constable who was in the company of his colleague inquired to know why the suspects were smoking bang, only for one of them, the GSU officer, to draw a pistol and shoot him in the right hip.

It soon turned out that the shooter was a GSU officer attached to a foreign President's Nairobi residence.