A police officer based at Ruiru Police Station has been arrested alongside three Mitsumi Business Park workers over a robbery with violence incident.
Three suspects have been identified as; Albert Ochola, Walter Kiverenge, and Bernard Ogutu Oketch.
They are accused of accosting an accountant inside a lift where they stole $50,000 (Sh5.5 million).
Armed with pistols, the four attacked the woman who was on her way to the bank.
“Armed with pistols, the four, together with others who are being sought accosted the accountant while inside a lift as she was heading to deposit the cash in the bank,” DCI said in a tweet.
Armed with pistols, the four, together with others who are being sought accosted the accountant while inside a lift as she was heading to deposit the cash in the bank.
From one of the suspects house in Huruma estate; Albert Ochola, detectives recovered 10,000 USD.
— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) December 9, 2020
At Ochola’s Huruma Estate home, Parklands detectives recovered 10,000 dollars, while at Kiverenge’s Kawangware home, sleuths found 12,300 dollars.
The latter, a staff supervisor, had concealed the cash inside a water dispenser.
Ochola is a plumber in Mitsumi Business Park.
12,300 USD was also recovered from Walter Kiverenge's house at Kawagware. The staff supervisor had concealed the cash inside a water dispenser.
— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) December 9, 2020
At Mr Oketch’s Mathare Area One residence, detectives found 10,000 dollars, a brand new TV and two mobile phones.
The suspects will be arraigned on Thursday.
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