- Jamal Bare Mohamed was employed on August 31, 1996.
- He was stationed at Thika Patrol Base as a rider earning a gross salary of Sh35,770 per month.
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A traffic police officer on a Sh38,000 a month gross pay has surrendered Sh26 million bribes cash he collected from motorists.
Jamal Bare Mohamed was employed on August 31, 1996. He was stationed at Thika Patrol Base as a rider earning a gross salary of Sh35,770 per month.
At the time the case was being investigated, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission was able to establish that between July 1, 2010 and September 30, 2016, Jamal made cash and Mkesho deposits of Sh43.4 million in his various bank accounts.
EACC subsequently obtained preservation orders to freeze Sh26,193,071.70 held in his Equity Bank Limited, Thika Supreme Branch. The order was obtained on October 14, 2016.
Four years later, Jamal made an initial proposal for a negotiated settlement.
He made several other proposals but were not accepted until July this year by Justice James Wakiaga.
Jamal made a proposal to surrender the entire amount of Sh26,193,071.70 frozen in his Equity bank account. His request was approved and the suit was marked as settled.
The commission has been pursuing Sh47 million from the traffic officer but Sh26 million is what was frozen by the courts at the time.
The monies will now be transferred to the commission's account held at Kenya Commercial Bank at Milimani law courts.
According to the court documents, EACC sleuths were assigned to ascertain the allegations that Jamal was soliciting and receiving bribes from motorists plying the Thika-Garissa Highway. The assignment date was October 2016.
The officers established that indeed Jamal waved down and stopped motorists randomly and was observed receiving and pocketing bribes.
He was photographed and captured on video soliciting and receiving bribes.
A day after, officer Dennis Mare obtained a warrant to investigate his Equity account in Thika.
An analysis of the bank statements revealed that Jamal had made deposits of Sh29 million in the account from January 1, 2013 to 14 October 2016.
“An analysis of his account demonstrated that from the time he started serving as a rider at Thika Patrol Base, Jamal received millions of shillings over and above his salary,” Mare said.
Majority of the payments made in Jamal’s account at Equity Bank, Thika Supreme Branch, were cash deposits of between Sh200,000 and Sh500,000 which were made weekly and in Thika where he was working at the time.
EACC also obtained copies of his pay slips for the period 2012-13 which showed that he earned a gross salary of between Sh33,050 and Sh38,630 per month.
This demonstrates a huge disparity between his legitimate sources of income and the huge deposits he made into his account.
The commission said Jamal’s assets were not commensurate with his income as a police constable or any other known legitimate sources of income.
-Edited by SKanyara