- Four traffic police officers were arrested on suspicion of bribery and detained by their Ethics and Anti-Corruption (EACC) colleagues.
- The foursome were busy making money from obedient motorists on Embu's highways when an anti-graft plainclothes detective called them.
- They were bundled into two cars and taken to the Integrity Center in Nairobi for questioning.
Kai Eri, a journalist with TUKO.co.ke, has over three years of experience covering Kenyan politics and current events.
The proverbial “40-day sentence” has arrived for a gang of four traffic police officers who were arrested by Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officials for collecting bribes on the main road near the Jesus Worship Center church in Embu.
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As if acting on a tip-off, plainclothes EACC detectives set a trap.
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How four traffic cops fell into the trap of EACC police officers
Officers were caught on secret camera taking turns accepting kickbacks. Each of them seemed to be experiencing a thrill.
They had just harvested the crop from a cargo truck, but soon anti-graft police officers showed up in Toyota Mark X and BMW X5.
The officers got out of the car without their traffic colleagues noticing. They tried to escape, but EACC detectives continued to catch them.
They were each grabbed, handcuffed and placed in a vehicle to be taken to Nairobi for pre-arraignment questioning.
The quartet consists of Fozia Harake, Adan Mohamed, Samy Cherogonyi and Maurice Mwakachola.
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The EACC regularly sets up dragnets on major highways across the country to catch unscrupulous police officers who take kickbacks at the cost of enforcing traffic rules.
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Two months ago, the agency's field team arrested two police officers in the city of Bungo for demanding bribes from boda boda riders.
The officers, who identified themselves as Charles Ogola and Vincent Oluwa, reportedly demanded 4,000 Kenyan shillings before releasing the seized motorbikes.
The two convicted were Charles Ogola and Vincent Oluwa.
They were detained and interrogated at Kandui Police Patrol Base in Bungoma District, and later arraigned at the Anti-Corruption Court.
Police who accept bribes on the roads are among the distributors of traffic accidents.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
