A retired prison officer from Transmara, Narok County who allegedly set up his two colleagues to be killed has been arrested in the Maasai Mara National Park where he has reportedly been living with animals in the bush.

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) found Pius Lemiso Ndiwa, alias Shonimeu, at 11 pm on Tuesday after he evaded the police dragnet for days.

Ndiwa was taken for interrogation in Kilgoris.

Last week, two prison officers were killed in Olemismis village after they were invited to settle a Sacco-related matter with Ndiwa.

The deceased pair identified as Inspector Patrick Mukunyi Kuya and Senior Sergent Daniel Nairimo left Nairobi on Wednesday in pursuit of what officers in the prisons department say was to settle the matter with Ndiwa who defaulted on a loan and left the city to reside in the countryside.

Upon reaching Ndiwa's homestead in Mentinkuar, the duo faced hostility from the suspect's family who screamed. Ndiwa had apparently told his family that the two strangers in their homestead were thugs.

As such, Ndiwa's two sons pounced on the two prison wardens who were in civilian attire with arrows and machetes.

“We arrived at the scene and we found two bodies badly mutilated, one had three arrows lodged on his back and the other had deep cuts on his back,” Kilgoris OCPD Jamleck Ngaruiya said then.

Ndiwa's wife however maintains her husband was not around during the incident.