Chuka demos: Police bosses transferred over shooting of boda boda chair
Police unblock the Meru-Nairobi highway on the morning of April 9, 2023. The road was closed the whole night by boda boda operators protesting the killing of their association's boss, Willis Mugambi.
Tharaka-Nithi County Police Commander Donatha Kiplagat and Chuka OCS Francisca Mbithe have been transferred following three days of demonstrations occasioned by the shooting of the County Boda Boda Association chairman Willis Mugambi on Saturday, Eastern Regional police boss Rono Bunei has confirmed.
It all started in Chuka town in Tharaka Nithi on Saturday after a mob barricaded the Meru-Nairobi Highway using stones and a casket containing the body of Daniel Mutembei. The residents of Nkwego village were demanding the arrest of Mutembei's killers.
