Drama ensued at a liquor retailer alongside Lumumba Drive close to TRM Mall in Kasarani after a staff of officers drawn from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption (EACC) arrested a police officer accused of soliciting bribes from merchants.
EACC officers stormed the outlets following a tip-off from members of the general public who accused the cop from Kasarani Police Station of irritating their operations.
Within the dramatic occasion,the police officer might be seen resisting arrest by holding onto the liquor retailer rails whereas screaming on the high of his voice.
He additional handcuffed himself to the rails forcing the EACC officer to circle in on him to take away {the handcuffs}. Some officers lifted him from the bottom as others held him by the scruff in an try to arrest him.
All of the whereas the police officer might be heard screaming ‘Kill me! Kill me! and lamenting that not solely have been his rights violated however he was additionally assaulted within the scuffle.
His cries nevertheless didn’t cease the EACC officers who compelled him out of the liquor retailer right into a ready van which sped off to an unknown vacation spot.
EACC in January this yr, heightened its crackdown on law enforcement officials accused of corruption, from site visitors law enforcement officials to these in workplaces and others at enterprise premises.
Talking on its latest operations, EACC chairperson Bishop David Oginde said that they not solely goal police but in addition state officers accused of embezzling funds.
Amongst them have been civil servants accused of touchdown state jobs by utilizing pretend or solid tutorial certificates.
“When the lengthy arm of the legislation lastly catches up with you, we will get better all the cash you bought by way of that course of,” Oginde warned on Monday, January 22, after assembly with Kisumu Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o.
On Thursday, EACC detectives arrested Dolal Mohamed Mohamud, the Managing Director, of Garissa Water and Sewage Firm who was accused of forging his Kenya Certificates of Secondary Training (KCSE) Certificates to safe admission for a college diploma.
Screenshot of three Law enforcement officials and a civilian allegedly taking bribes from a matatu.
