•An ambush stage came through when the targeted suspects dropped at the vehicle looking for their suspected partners in crime.
•The hired driver was abducted, assaulted, and left tied up at a construction site within Punda Milia section on Friday.
Four suspects connected to violent robberies in Naivasha and Gilgil were caught on Saturday in Njoro, Nakuru County.
The police recovered a stolen vehicle (lorry) from one of the incidents.
The suspects are said to have robbed a driver and sodomised him in the attack.
Police said a joint team of Nairobi and Nakuru detectives while pursuing a robbery incident reported at Naivasha Police Station on Valentines Day intercepted two suspects believed to be accomplices in the case, who were driving a Mitsubishi truck (FH).
Upon interrogations, detectives established that the two suspects were on their way to meet the two other suspected accomplices in Njoro town in Nakuru county.
An ambush stage came through when the targeted suspects dropped at the vehicle looking for their suspected partners in crime.
With the four suspects in custody, it was found that the truck was stolen in Gilgil at Elementaita area when the driver who had been hired to offer transport services was abducted, sodomized and left tied up at a construction site within Punda Milia section.
This followed a trail that had been ongoing and the driver was rescued as the suspects were also arrested.
In the incident, the 38-year-old driver lost Sh55,000 and his mobile phone to a six-member gang, who disabled the lorry tracker before disappearing."
The victim had been rushed to Gilgil Sub-County Hospital for treatment.
The recovered vehicle has since been towed and detained at Njoro Police Station where the suspects were also booked pending further police action.
Police say they are looking for more suspects over the incident. The suspects will face serious charges including sodomy, police said.
Such attacks are common on the Nairobi-Nakuru-Eldoret highway where thugs target drivers and rob them of lorries and the goods they carry.
A squad had been formed to pursue the gang, police said adding some past incidents have been solved by arresting the suspects behind them. Statistics show some suspects steal the valuables and abandon the lorries on the roadsides.