A police officer attached to Deputy President William Ruto is admitted in hospital after sustaining serious injuries following an altercation with a gardener at the DP’s private residence in Karen, Nairobi.
Corporal Timothy Mugendi Rucha was hit by the gardener on the rear part of the head with an object after the altercation turned physical says a police report.
It is not clear what caused the altercation that went physical at the residence at around 12.20am.
“The officer was taken to Nairobi West Hospital in critical condition with multiple head injuries,” reads the police report in part.
The gardener identified as Nicholas Kibiwot Rono has since been arrested pending arraignment.
The DP was not present at the time of the incident on Thursday morning but some of his family members were sleeping then.
