A woman who was reportedly shot by a businessman on grounds that she resembled wanted policewoman Caroline Kangogo has opened up about the incident.
The woman identified as Phanice Chemutai told Nation from her hospital bed where she is recuperating that Ken Muyundo shot her after she turned down his sexual advances.
Muyundo had told police that he mistakenly shot 20-year-old Chemutai as she resembled officer Kangogo who has been on the run after being linked to the shooting of two men.
Chemutai, however, maintains that Muyundo who is a licensed gun holder, shot her knowingly.
According to Chemutai, she had decided to spend the night at a hotel room in Kitale after curfew hours found her in town.
She said that she had not intended to spend at the hotel, and had made efforts and called a relative who lives nearby seeking accommodation, but the relative arrived late, just after curfew hours.
Book a hotel room
“The relative asked me to book a room in one of the hotels and gave me some money to buy food,” she said.
It was when she left her room to buy supper that she allegedly saw Muyunda siting inside a black Prado – at the hotel’s parking lot.
“He called me to his car and I obliged. He told me that he was happy to see me, and that he wanted us to know each other more. I informed him I was committed, and that what he was asking for could not happen,” said Ms Chemutai.
She says that the suspect asked her for her phone number – and promised to call her later.
As she was coming from buying food, she says the man kept looking at her, and for a moment she felt insecure.
Shot in the abdomen
“I alerted the caretaker about the man,” she says adding that: “We (and the caretaker) walked to the vehicle and I showed her the man in the car. It was then that he drew his gun and shot at me saying that I was the woman he had been looking for.”
Chemutai was rushed to hospital by officers who were on patrol came to her rescue, taking her to hospital.
She was shot on the left abdomen. The doctors managed to extract the bullet.