An officer formerly attached to Nairobi’s Directorate of Criminal Investigation department will spend five years in jail after being found guilty of three offences. – By Gerald Gekara.
The officer, former Inspector Painito Bera, had been accused of kidnapping, abuse of office and giving false information.
Painito is accused of kidnapping two foreigners who had been granted political asylum in Kenya in 2014.
According to reports, the officer abducted revolutionists Ali Ahmed Hussein and Sulub Abdi on January 26, 2014 and handed them over to the Ethiopian Government.
The foreigners had been members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) – were fighting for the independence of the Somali-speaking Ogaden region.
