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| Police manning a road in Nairobi |
The proverbial 40 days arrived for a quartet of traffic police officers who were busted by Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers while collecting bribes on a highway in Embu near a Jesus Worship Centre church. Police officers controlling traffic on a busy Kenyan highway. The plain clothes EACC detectives set right their trap as if they were acting on a tip-off. How 4 traffic cops ended up in EACC officers’ trap A secret camera captured the officers taking the kickbacks in turns; each seemed to get a thrill out of it. . They had just reaped from a freight lorry when the anti-graft officers showed up in no time on board a Toyota Mark X and a BMW X5. The officers alighted the vehicles, catching their traffic colleagues unawares; they strived to run away, but the EACC detectives maintained their grip on them. They were each grabbed, handcuffed and bundled into the vehicles to be driven off to Nairobi for interrogation ahead of arraignment. The quartet comprises Fozia Hallake, Adan Mohamed, Sammy Cherogony and Maurice Mwakachora. Watch; Bungoma cops arrested over KSh 4k bribe The EACC has routinely been setting its dragnets on major highways across the country to nab rogue officers taking kickbacks at the expense of enforcing traffic rules. Two months back, the agency’s field team arrested two police officers who they caught demanding a bribe from a boda boda rider in Bungoma. The officers, identified as Charles Ogola and Vincent Orwa, reportedly wanted KSh 4,000 before releasing an impounded motorcycle. They were detained at the Kanduyi Police Patrol Base in Bungoma County before being interrogated and later arraigned at the Anti-Corruption Court. Police taking bribes on the roads have been listed among the contributors to road accidents.
by Kai Eli