The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has presented two police officers, David Irungu and Hassan Liban Hassan, before the Isiolo Anti-Corruption Court. The duo, which is based in Merti sub-county within Isiolo, has been accused of bribery and robbery with violence charges.
According to the EACC, the two police officers demanded a bribe of Ksh 50,000 from a man they had arrested and detained on the suspicion of being a member of the outlawed Al Shabaab. This was their condition for releasing the suspect.
The police officers, while armed with a rifle, frisked the complainant and robbed him of an additional Ksh 57,000.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the bribery and robbery with violence charges and were released on a cash bail of Ksh. 300,000 or a surety bond of Ksh 500,000.
The hearing will be held on 27th May 2024.
On December 30th 2023, suspected Al-Shabaab militants attacked the National Police Service’s (NPS) Quick Response Unit (QRU) Camp in Mandera County.
Police reports indicate that more than 20 heavily armed militants approached the camp from the northwest, initiating their assault within a proximity of 100 meters from the camp. There were zero fatalities.
Earlier in the year, in July 2023, Kenya’s national police force neutralised 20 Al-Shabaab militants in an operation near Kenya’s border with Somalia. Eight officers were injured.
A special unit of police officers came under heavy fire in an ambush while patrolling in Mandera, a county in northern Kenya that shares an extensive frontier with Somalia.
The exchange “left 20 militants fatally injured” and eight officers injured, the national police service said in a statement on its official Twitter account.
“Police also recovered assorted weapons from the scene of the crime,” it added, alongside photographs of a heavy machine gun and rocket launchers.