Officer denies police link in case involving disappearance of a man in Nakuru

By PATRICK KIBET

NAKURU COUNTY: Nakuru District Criminal Investigations Officer Collins Wekesa has absolved his officers of blame over the alleged arrest and disappearance of a man in Nakuru town two months ago.

Wekesa, who appeared before the Nakuru High Court, said CID officers attached to Nakuru and who were alleged to have been involved in the incident, were on assignment in Molo at the time.

However, Wekesa was questioned over discrepancies on the work ticket produced in court that indicated contradicting hours for authorised use of an official vehicle.

Despite admitting that he authorised the use of the vehicle, Wekesa told the court he had only learnt of the errors while in court.

The DCIO had been summoned to court following the disappearance on May 22 of Moses Ndeda who worked as a causal labourer at Nakuru Top Market.

Elizabeth Omwenyo, who filed the case on behalf of Ernest Amugune Siva, Ndeda’s father, questioned whether the officers deployed by the DCIO went to Molo.

“How do you prove the officers actually went to Molo as per your directions?” Omwenyo posed.

However, Wekesa told the court CID officers on assignment were not booked in the Occurrence Book when deployed for operations.

Wekesa said the allegations were not true since he had assigned three officers to Molo at 2.30pm for surveillance.

“I doubt if at the same time while on assignment in Molo they could have been involved in another arrest in Nakuru,” he said.

alive or dead

He also told the court violence and fraud offences are prevalent in Nakuru and they involve individuals from all sets of age groups.

“We are there to protect property and lives and I have sent officers to the ground to monitor and find out where Ndeda is whether alive or dead,” Wekesa assured the court.

The court will rule on the matter on September 27.

And in a recent incident in Thika, police officers were probed over the killing of a medical student.

Thika Deputy OCPD Caleb Wesa said the officers mistook the student and his girlfriend for criminals because when they asked them to identify themselves, they tried to flee.