Friday, March 29, 2024 - A police officer attached to Nominated Senator Joyce Korir was arrested in connection to an incident where a businessman was carjacked and robbed of Sh156,000 in Bureti, Kericho County.
Constable
Chamdany Kipkirui was arrested alongside Constable Kipyegon Ngetich, who is attached to Huduma Centre
Kapenguria, after investigations linked them to the December 28, 2023 robbery
in Bureti Sub-County
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.
The
complainant, Wesley Kimngeno Tonui, said he was driving from his friend’s
residence around 3pm when his vehicle was blocked by two 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.
Two
other men boarded his vehicle and all three vehicles were driven towards Bomet
via Kaplong direction.
They
later stopped at a petrol station where his abductors gave him back his phone
and ordered him to pay for fuel.
He
managed to disable his vehicle using a car track mobile application.
The
car stalled in the middle of the road, prompting his abductors to flee the
scene.
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.
“He
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,” a police report reads.
He
was then taken to an M-Pesa shop where he was forced to withdraw the cash
before being ordered to board a motorcycle to Litein.
The
victim reported the matter and investigations were launched.
On
Thursday, the two officers and another member of the public, Kipngetich Rono, were
arrested and detained at Litein Police Station pending further interrogation
and identification by the complainant.
Read
the police report below.
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