Police have arrested four people suspected of stealing 10 crates of eggs from Deputy President William Ruto’s farm in Sugoi, Uasin Gishu.
Eldoret West Officer Commanding Police Division Zachariah Bitok said the suspects, two men and two women, were being detained at Turbo Police Station.
Mr Bitok yesterday told The Standard a manager at Dr Ruto’s Yegen farm realised the eggs worth Sh2,500 were missing mid-morning and alerted police.
“All the workers denied knowledge of the missing eggs. The manager later realised the suspects had hidden the crates in one section of the farm,” the OCPD said.
Bitok said they were investigating to establish if the workers colluded with outsiders to steal from the farm that is guarded by officers from the General Service Unit.
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The firm supplies hundreds of crates of eggs to towns in the North Rift and Nairobi.
He said they would also probe whether workers had been stealing over an extended period.
When The Standard attempted to get audience with the farm’s management and some workers, the GSU officers laughed off the theft report and denied that it had happened. “Such a thing can never happen here. Unless it happened elsewhere,” an officer said.
Bitok said the suspects would be taken to court as soon as investigation was done.
