Four police officers in Sh400,000 robbery identified

By STEVE MKAWALE AND ANTONY GITONGA

NAKURU COUNTY: Initial investigations into a Sh400,000 robbery involving four police officers in Nakuru reveal that those implicated had been deployed on duty elsewhere and not Section 58, where they had arrested a businesswoman.

Sources privy to the investigations told The Standard that the officers, who have since been identified, were deployed to patrol the crime-prone Kiamunyi area.

“We are trying to establish what the officers were doing in Section 58 Estate, which is far from the area they were assigned to patrol,” said one of the detectives.

However, Nakuru Criminal Investigation Department officer Collins Wekesa said it was too early to comment on the investigations, but added that they had made some progress.

“We started the investigations a day ago but we have made some progress. We need at least a week to complete them,” he said when contacted over the matter.

The four officers attached to the flying squad unit allegedly robbed businesswoman Christine Mwiti of Sh400,000 she was carrying in her car after closing her business in Section 58 Estate.

A senior officer from the unit, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the case was being handled seriously given the impact it will have on other officers who have been accused and little has been done to address the cases.

“We must get to the bottom of this matter. Members of the public have been complaining of harassment by police officers belonging to the crack unit,” said a senior officer.

The officer said the officers had been warned for a long time to stop harassing members of the public but nothing had changed.

“At this point, we will let the law take its course. They are charged to fight crime, not perpetuate it. An inquiry has been opened and action will definitely be taken,” said the officer.

Meanwhile, angry members of the Mau Mau group in Naivasha impounded more than 200 head of cattle that had strayed onto the farms located near Lake Naivasha.

The war veterans drove the animals into the Naivasha sub-county office compound, temporarily paralysing operations.

The elderly farmers were angered when a group of pastoralists drove the animals onto the farms, destroying farm produce worth thousands of shillings.