Four Kenyan journalists escaped death narrowly on February 21 when they were ambushed and rounded up by a group of gun-wielding policemen.
Kenyan journalists report a disturbing encounter with an apparently intoxicated police officer.
The building is located on Oginga Odinga Street in the town of Eldoret, about 300 km northwest of the capital city of Nairobi. When the journalists left the building, they were shocked to find guns pointed at them just outside Klique Restaurant at about 7.30 pm. But just before he pulled the trigger, another policeman approached the scene and restrained him, saying he knew the journalists. In Kenya, trigger-happy police are known to shoot at will and later brand their victims as robbers. However the policeman, with the gun still pointing at the journalists, ordered them to identify themselves.