Mounting grief and unanswered questions trail the family of a GSU officer whose body was found close to the camp where he was posted in Garissa. This was after the body of the 25-year-old was discovered just a short distance from the camp, with the family raising concerns over the same.
The officer’s body was found 50 meters away from where the GSU camp is based in Damjali, close to the border with Somalia. For his family, it is enough that he was found near where he worked, among other officers, and nobody knows what exactly went on.
Local leaders have also been alarmed by the killing, with one of them saying the young cop might have been killed by people he knows.
“We heard also that he was murdered near the camp,” said the leader. “We suspect perhaps that he has been murdered by those who were close to him, or perhaps by his colleagues.”
There were initial suggestions that the policeman might have taken his own life, although this has been denied by his family. His sister, who saw the body, says that the wounds she saw did not suggest such a thing.
“As far as what I observed, this was not a suicide,” she said, determined that the truth about her brother’s death should be known.
“I think there is some level of suspicion here because it is not a normal death to occur in such a short space of time for someone who was not even in their 50s yet,” <a href
“What happened here is very mysterious, and we are very suspicious that there was foul play in this death.”
Finally, the family has now called upon the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to carry out a transparent investigation into the matter, stating they need no less than a credible probe to find closure.
The issue raises concern at a moment when a rising number of police officers are reported to have died under questionable or disputed circumstances in 2025.
June started with the killing of a patrol police officer from Bondeni Police Station in Nakuru. The incident was initially attributed to an ambush by armed gangs. However, with the subsequent discovery of an AK-47 rifle and the arrest of several people in connection with the incident, it is difficult to say what exactly happened.
In early October, a GSU officer posted at the State House entrance at Gate D in Nairobi was killed after being speared in what was presumed to be an invasion. Within the same timeframe, another officer posted along the perimeter wall at JKIA was reported to have been strangled by a local.
It is worth noting that in the Garissa case, the investigators have taken the body samples of the dead and analyzed them in the government lab in their efforts to determine the cause of deaths. But for his grieving family, the wait is nothing short of agonising. While they mourn the loss of a young man who left home for the purpose of serving his country, all that is left for them is the Answer, or rather, Justice, for a Life.