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The two officers and another member of the public were arrested and detained at Litein police station pending further interrogation and identification by the complainant and arraignment.
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This is after they were mentioned in the drama. They have also been placed at the scene of the robbery.
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A bodyguard attached to a nominated Senator and a Kapenguria police station officer are among those arrested over a dramatic robbery with violence incident reported in Buret, Kericho County.
They were arrested Thursday in connection to an incident where a businessman was carjacked and robbed of Sh156,000
The two officers and another member of the public were arrested and detained at Litein police station pending further interrogation and identification by the complainant and arraignment.
This is after they were mentioned in the drama. They have also been placed at the scene of the robbery.
The two were arrested after investigations linked them to the December 28, 2023 robbery in Bureti Sub-County, police said.
They are likely to join other suspects already in court over the saga.
The complainant, Wesley Kimngeno Tonui told police he was driving from his friend’s residence on December 28 around 3pm when his vehicle was blocked by two other vehicles, a Toyota Rav4 and a Toyota Axio.
Seven men, three of them armed with pistols, alighted from both vehicles and introduced themselves as police officers.
They then handcuffed and ordered him to board the Rav4 after confiscating his phones, he said.
“Two men boarded his motor vehicle and all the three vehicles were driven towards Bomet through Kaplong direction,” he told police.
“They later stopped at a petrol station where they returned his phone and ordered him to pay for fuel.”
In the process, he managed to disable the vehicle using the car track mobile application, and the car stalled in the middle of the road.
Worried about their safety, the robbers fled from the scene using another car and the stalled vehicle was later towed to Bomet police station.
The other vehicle took the businessman to the Kiptagich area in Mau Forest where they ordered him to transfer all his money from his bank account to his mobile phone account for easier withdrawal.
The victim had a total of Sh131,000 which he deposited to his mobile account.
He was also ordered to call his friends and relatives who later sent him a total of Sh25,000.
The victim said after that they took him to a Mpesa shop where he was forced to withdraw the cash before being ordered to board a motorcycle to Litein.
He later reported the matter and investigations were launched.
A total of six suspects were later arrested and charged in a Kericho court where they pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted a bond of Sh1 million plus two sureties.
Police said this is an isolated case and they will be charged if and when found to have been involved in the drama.
Several officers have been arrested for robbery in the last few months.
For instance, on February 27, two police officers were arraigned before the Isiolo Anti-Corruption Court to face bribery and robbery with violence charges.
This is after they allegedly demanded a bribe of Sh50,000 from a suspect they had arrested on suspicion of being a member of the outlawed Al-Shabaab group.
They purportedly set the bribe as a condition for releasing the suspect.