It is a hunt that keeps Kenya in suspense. Police officer Caroline Kangogo has been wanted by her colleagues for seven days now. She is suspected of having shot two men to death on July 5 and 6. The 34-year-old has been on the run since then. The Kenyan authorities may well have mobilized significant human resources, Caroline Kangogo is still traceable to this day.
With our correspondence in Nairobi, Albane Thirouard
The hunt began Monday morning, July 5, when a police officer, John Ogweno, was found dead in his car. He had spent the night before with his colleague Caroline Kangogo.
On Tuesday, the body of Peter Ndwiga was discovered in a hotel room, more than 200 km from the first murder. The day before, he had joined Caroline Kangogo, his lover. If the security cameras saw them coming together, the latter was filmed and left the scene, alone, at midnight.
Since then, there are no more traces of the suspect. Elite police and army forces have been deployed to find her. But her 13 years of experience as a police officer give her an advantage, according to investigators: she knows how to cover his tracks. Meanwhile, rumors are rife. She was reportedly seen in Nairobi on Wednesday, then further north on Thursday. And in the western part of the country on Friday.
The director of criminal investigations urged Kenyans to be vigilant and described a suspect as “armed and dangerous”. According to national media, she would be a sniper. Information that sowed panic. On Friday morning, at a market in western Kenya, a businessman shot a woman after mistaking her for the refugee.
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