Mombasa: Traffic cop Dies in a Scuffle With Motorist

February 28, 2023

Traffic Police officer on the highway[Photos/Courtesy].

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023 –Police in Mombasa have managed to arrest a rogue driver who allegedly killed a traffic police officer on Monday, February 27.

The diseased officer identified in the Occurrence Book OB as Julius Marwa was on his routine traffic control duty at the Buxton Junction Mombasa at around 4PM when this happened. He was with a colleague.

A Kenyan police officer pictured at a crime scene.

His woes started when he stopped a motorist for a routine traffic check-up and, in retaliation, the driver started exchanging back. The events degenerated into a scuffle what saw the police officer fight to switch of the car and take away the keys only for the driver to overwhelm him.

The driver would end up pulling the traffic cop into the car but his legs remained hanging as the car sped off.

After around 200 meters, the cop fell flat on the ground as the driver ran away from the scene; and this is when the fellow cops came to save him but he had been injured beyond repair and succumbed to injuries while on medication.

It would be found out that the officer’s feet had severely been damaged after he had been dragged on the tarmac long.

“The officer sustained serious head injury and multiple fractures on the pelvis. He was rushed to Jocham Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The body is lying at the same hospital mortuary pending postmortem,” read the report in the OB.

A DCI operation identified both the suspect and his car before eventually tracing him from his hiding place inside a basement parking within Beach Road Estate.

Traffic Police along Nakuru-Nairobi Road.

He has since been arrested and will be charged with murder.

Miles away in Murang’a County, a similar incident of brutality also took place where suspected thugs attacked a police officer before stealing his firearm on Saturday, February 25.