Arshad Sharif passed away half-an-hour after the retrieval of the stolen car

NAIROBI: The investigation teams have discovered that renowned Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif passed within a half-hour after the missing car was found.
The vehicle in question, a Mercedes Benz Sprinter 311 with the registration number (KDJ 700F), belongs to floriculture dealer Douglas Wainaina Kamau, who claimed ownership of it. He said he reported the vehicle missing on October 23, 2022, at the Pangani police station. Douglas.
He claimed that on Sunday, March 23, 2022, he had left his son Duncan inside the car and gone to perform some errands. When he came back to the spot where he had parked the car, he discovered it had been stolen.
“I left my car with my kid while I went to a local store to pick up a few things, and when I got back, I couldn’t find it. He didn’t pick up when I called him numerous times, and I started to worry that something might have gone wrong,” he stated.
Wainaina went to record a statement at a police station called Pangani in Nairobi County, the nation’s capital, after becoming weary of waiting for his 27-year-old son Duncan.
Reporters can state that on October 23, 2022, police announced the report’s number as Occurrence Book number 70. After requesting to meet the chief officer at the station, Douglas was then directed to the office of police investigations.
The investigating officers informed him that they would accompany him to the scene of the vehicle’s discovery after hearing about his issue. At the shooting range known as AmmoDump Kwenia, journalist Arshad Sharif was conversing with many American instructors while sitting with his friend Khurram Ahmad.
In response to the car’s signal, the policemen departed the Pangani Police Station and headed for the Rongai-Kiserian Road. There are 31.4 kilometres between the station and the Rongai-Kiserian Road.
The son called to say that he had made the decision to go check on his mother and wife before the police could begin their search for the vehicle when they arrived at the gas station. Douglas instructed his son to drive the car to the gas station, which the boy did. However, when he got there, the police officers ordered the boy and the driver that they should return to the station rather than letting them go.
Khurram Ahmad and the murdered journalist were travelling to Nairobi County at the same time as the team left for the Pangani police station. They were approaching Magadi Road in a Toyota Land Cruiser with the licence plate number TAXI (KDG 200M).
They arrived at a location that was purportedly blocked by stones, and officials from the General Service Unit (GSU) were manning the blockage. A paramilitary division of the Kenyan Police, GSU. Highly skilled policemen with expertise in firearms use and counterterrorism make up the Kenya Police Service.
In a statement made at the Magadi Police Station, the police said that despite being told to halt, Khurram Ahmad continued to drive despite the road barricade, which sparked a deadly gunfight that resulted in Sharif’s death.
According to the police report on the shooting in Kenya, “Ahmed and the deceased were travelling along the Kwenia-Kamukuru rough route when they found the road blocked with tiny stones and they chose to pass them before they reached the Kiserian-Magadi Road.”
They then heard gunfire coming from both the front and back of their car. They didn’t halt and carried on travelling.
Waqar Ahmed, who lives in Tinga, was notified of the occurrence by Khurram, who then recommended them to pass by his home. However, when he arrived at the main gate, he discovered that his brother had passed away from a gunshot wound to the head, the report said.
Douglas, his son Duncan, and the police officers arrived at the Pangani Police Station an hour after the murder incident had been reported.
His son was lodged with the police under OB 90/23/10/2022, and the father was given the role of the complaint. The father left the station, and the next morning he returned there. There, an officer requested that he record a statement on the theft of the car.
He begged them to release the son since he didn’t want to pursue the issue further, but he was told that a shooting had taken place in connection with the report he had made at the station.
On Wednesday, October 24, Duncan was brought before Makadara Law Court after the police had created a charge sheet. The father, however, asserted that he was not interested in pursuing the matter further and that they would settle it outside of court.
The request was approved and the son was released. The police wanted to hold Duncan for further days while they looked into Arshad Sharif’s death, but the judge refused, so Duncan was re-arrested and brought back to court the next day. Additionally, the judge mandated that the car be returned to its rightful owner and confirmed that Douglas has never received the car since that time. Douglas explained through his attorney that he primarily wrote the written statement to let people know that he had no part to play in the incident that killed Arshad Sharif.
The accounts were factual, Elisha Ndemo of EM Ndemo and Co-Advocates, the attorney who represented him in court. Elisha Ndemo, a lawyer, told that “the accounts happened as narrated when I defended him in court.”
The sequence of events leading up to that terrible day is as follows:
At 7:00 pm, the Mercedes Benz vanished.
At 7:20 o’clock, Douglas reported the event.
At 9:30 p.m., his son was discovered in Kiserian.
At 9:30 p.m., his car was discovered in Kiserian.
Arshad Sharif passed away just after 10:00 o’clock.