Police yesterday recovered a cache of weapons including eight firearms and about 200 rounds of ammunition at the home of a police officer in Cherang’any in Trans Nzoia county.
Rift Valley Regional police boss Marcus Ocholla said the officer, identified as Constable Maxwell Tally Mutonyi, is a police driver attached to the Judiciary in Nairobi.
Ocholla said they also found a smoke trouser, a jungle pullover, an Angola jungle shirt, one modified swagger cane and a colourless liquid in a 5-litre jerry can among other things.
“He is a serving officer and we are still looking for him. The presence of such firearms and ammunition clearly indicate that he had an ill motive,” Ocholla said.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and officers from the Cherang’any Police Station raided the home yesterday at 12.30am following a tip-off.

A cache of firearms recovered in the home of a police officer in Cherangany, Trans Nzoia county.
Armed robberies
“One suspect, who is yet to be arrested escaped, leaving the door open. He is being sought since we suspect he could have escaped with other weapons,” the police officer said.
Constable Mutonyi is said to have spent some days at his rural home and left just recently.
The search was yesterday extended to Nairobi at the police staff quarters in South B but by last evening the officer had not been traced.
Detectives also recovered a motor vehicle, a blue Peugeot registration number KAC 001 W, parked at the residence.
The Trans Nzoia sub-county DCI boss Peter Omari, who is leading the investigations, said they were trying to establish whether the weapons and uniforms were used in recent armed robberies in the region.
“We suspect the weapons and uniforms are being used in committing robberies within the area,” the DCI boss said.
Sources told People Daily that the officer is suspected to be part of a gang that has been involved in robberies in the area. Members of the gang are said to be in police uniform and ride motorcycles.
The regional commander, however, said the officer would be thoroughly grilled before appropriate action is taken.