Two police officers arrested while receiving KSh100,000 bribe; EACC
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EACC (Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission) arrest two police officers for soliciting KSh100,000 bribe from a mobile phone shop
EACC (Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission) arrest two police officers for soliciting KSh100,000 bribe from a mobile phone shop.
Two Regular Police officers from Eastleigh North Police Station in Starehe Sub-county have been arrested by Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) detectives for reportedly demanding a Sh300,000 bribe.
The police constables include Raphael Nzioka and Nancy Kerubo.
According to EACC, the two were arrested for allegedly extorting items and cash from a local businessman who owned a cell phone store in Nairobi’s central business district.
The two are alleged to have gone to the complainant’s store on that specific day and without cause seized his inventory of mobile phones, which was valued at Sh300,000.
“The officers demanded a bribe of Sh100,000 from the complainant to return the confiscated stock of mobile phones prompting the trader to seek help from the Commission,” EACC said.
“Upon verification of the allegations, EACC detectives mounted an operation leading to the arrest of the two police officers while receiving the demanded bribe.”
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The suspects were interrogated at Integrity Centre Police Station and later detained at Kilimani Police Station pending further legal processing.
EACC Spokesperson Eric Ngumbi confirmed the arrest and said that the Commission is getting more and more allegations of police personnel extorting people outright without anything touching on the victims.
“The emerging trend shows that in most cases, it is no longer bribery to forbear law enforcement action, but pure extortion of money from citizens who are not facing any legitimate accusation of violating the law,” Ngumbi said.
“To mitigate this menace and alleviate the pain visited upon citizens by such incidents, EACC expects Police Commanders at all levels to take up the responsibility of ensuring that officers under their command refrain from such despicable acts that are not only criminal but also immoral. The Commanders, too, should not be the cause of such extortion under the pretext of criminal law enforcement.”
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