- The DCI officers believed Ambrose Odero Owino was the mastermind of the Kisumu gun drama which left two people dead and scores injured
- He was born and brought up in Siaya county, where he also sat the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education in 2016
- The former Sengere Secondary School student attained B minus and was offered a place at Maseno University but forfeited due to lack of fees
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The identity of the man who is believed to have grabbed a gun from a police officer before shooting dead two people and injuring others in Kisumu has been established.
Detectives probing the incident identified Ambrose Odero Owino, now deceased, as the Kisumu gun drama mastermind, which also left police officers with injuries.
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According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Odero was born and brought up in Siaya county, where he also sat KCSE in 2016.
Odero wrote his national exams at Sengere Secondary School and attained a B minus, becoming the seventh-best student at the Siaya county school.
His mother, Catherine Akoth, remembered the 25-year-old son as once a bright student whose quest for education was cut short due to lack of school fees.
Akoth said although his son received an admission letter to join Maseno University, she regretted the family was unable to raise the required fee prompting him to seek early employment in Kisumu.
"A visit by DCI detectives to his former school indeed confirmed that he was a student there and had scored an aggregate grade of B minus emerging the seventh best candidate in the school," the sleuths established.Armed with his high school academic paper, Odero, who had not applied for the national identity card, secured a job with a mattress company in the lakeside region until 2019.
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He presented a scanned national ID belonging to Fredrick Oduor Odera, having replaced Odera with his name Odero and superimposed his image on Odera's to bypass the recruiting officers.
As fate would have it, towards the end of 2019, all employees were asked to produce original national IDs following the National Employment Authority directive.
Fearing his tactics would come to light, Odero began absconding duties and eventually got dismissed.
"Detectives were investigating whereabouts of Odero since February 2020 when he was shown the door, until the day he staged the Kisumu shooting incident," DCI added.The development came barely five days after the detectives failed to trace his particulars in the government database even though he possessed three IDs by the time the mob lynched him.
In collaboration with crime research and intelligence bureau, further investigations by the anti-terror police unit disclosed the attacker, who was later killed by a mob, had undergone ammunition training before the incident.
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