By Peter Ochieng
Four police officers are among six suspects who have been arrested, after allegedly trailing the accountant of Rophine International School from a bank in Utawala on Monday afternoon, before breaking into his car and disappearing with Sh2.2 million.
The six, four of whom are a police sergeant, a corporal, a constable from Kasarani Police Station, and a police constable from Ruai police station alongside two civilians were arrested at the Kasarani Police Station public parking yard, by a combined team of detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Nairobi region and Kayole Sub-county.
They have been identified as Sergeant Antony Ndegwa Anwal, Corporal Daniel Lekakeny Sunkuli, Constable Simon Macharia Maina (of DCI Kasarani), Constable Antony Mwenda (Kenya Police Service Ruai), Lukas Magwaga and Young Wakise.
DCI in a statement said Sh473,000 believed to be part of the stolen amount was recovered from the six, who were ambushed in the stations official police vehicle.
“In the earlier incident reported at Mihang’o Police Station at 4pm Monday, the accountant had withdrawn an amount in excess of the Sh2.2 million that was stolen, intended for the payment of casual workers at the said school. Unbeknownst to him, sheer-greed miscreants using a saloon car Reg. No. KCR 959D were hot on his trail right from when he parked his car outside the bank to when he left with the load of cash,” added the statement.
Reportedly, the accountant had parked his car outside the school, taken some amount from the withdrawn sum, locked the car and entered the school compound. “Allegedly, he could not carry the whole amount,” added the DCI.
However, minutes later when he went back to pick more cash, he found the car broken into and the millions missing.
The DCI Sub-county head confirmed that the arrested officers were neither on official duty to Utawala nor working under his instructions. All the suspects have been placed in custody as further investigations continue.