Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Serious Crimes Unit (SCU), in collaboration with detectives stationed in Ruiru, have apprehended a DCI officer over an alleged robbery with violence incident.
According to detectives, the officer, who is stationed at the DCI offices in Kibwezi, Makueni County, was arrested on Monday, February 17, over links to a robbery incident that took place on July 22 last year.
On the aforementioned date, police officers received reports of a robbery at Yikisaya Trading Centre in Kibwezi Sub-County.
The officers responded swiftly and, upon arrival at the trading centre, discovered that a gang of four people had robbed revellers in two nightclubs.
Reports by the DCI officers indicate that the robbers, who were dressed in jungle uniforms and armed with a pistol, had entered a club and threatened bar attendants and customers to surrender their belongings.
During the robbery, one bar attendant was reportedly shot in the stomach and left nursing serious injuries before the robbers made off with Ksh50,000.
"They threatened bar attendants and customers, ordering them to surrender their belongings. In the course of the robbery, one bar attendant was shot in the stomach and sustained serious injuries," the DCI officers recounted.
The armed men then proceeded to Darajani Shopping Centre, where they forced their way into a second nightclub. There, the robbers fired two shots into the air before going on to rob bar attendants and customers of Ksh25,850 and two mobile phones.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect arrested yesterday was connected to or could have had information regarding the two robbery incidents.
Following the reports, the officer’s firearm was confiscated, and the empty cartridges recovered from both crime scenes were sent to DCI Headquarters for ballistic examination. Analysis confirmed that the cartridges had been fired from the officer’s firearm.
After months of investigations, the suspect was yesterday arraigned before the Makindu Law Courts, where investigators were granted a 14-day custodial order to complete their investigations.
“The Directorate of Criminal Investigations condemns such behaviour by police officers in the strongest terms possible, asserting that misconduct will be addressed with the full force of the law,” the DCI noted.
