Two Kenyan Cops Behind Bars for Robbery

Detectives based at DCI Tharaka South have arrested two police officers, suspected to have been involved in a robbery incident on Thursday morning.

The two law enforcement officers, Sergeant John Lekidayo and Constable Kelvin Kinyua, both attached at Nkubu Police Station, were arrested after initial preliminary investigations carried out linked the two to the incident.

 The robbery incident involves a lorry that was ferrying hardware goods worth Ksh. 600,000 from Isiolo to Tharaka Nithi.

According to a statement from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the lorry was blocked at Ura gate area by four people who introduced themselves as police officers before claiming that the lorry was ferrying counterfeit products.

The lorry driver, Morris Nyaga, and his two loaders, David Kuyo and Bonface Orito, were handcuffed by the rogue officers, one of whom was armed with an AK-47 rifle.

The three were then bundled into the white Toyota fielder that had been used to block the lorry, leaving it in the hands of two strangers who had arrived with the two officers turned suspects.

The vehicle then took off towards Kacibine market in Imenti central, where the driver and his loaders were later dumped.

The three later reported the incident at Kiagu police post where investigations immediately began and it was established that the vehicle involved in the incident, belonged to sergeant Lekidayo.

Further investigations revealed that Lekidayo was in charge of the armoury on the day of the incident and had issued an AK-47 rifle to his accomplice Kinyua.

The two then proceeded for unspecified duties that were not booked at the station raising more suspicion on their whereabouts, during the time when the incident is reported to have occurred.

“Detectives based at the forensic crime scene investigations unit and their cybercrime

counterparts have since been invited to conduct forensic analysis and net the remaining suspects,” DCI said in a statement on social media.

The lorry, according to the DCI report, was later found abandoned while empty, indicating that the goods may have been offloaded to another vehicle.