Officers charged with theft of clothes

Two police officers attached to Nakuru Central Police Station were on Wednesday charged with stealing assorted clothes from a Baringo Member of County Assembly (MCA).

Appearing before Principal Magistrate Liz Gicheha, the duo denied the charges and were released on a bond of Ksh 80,000 each with a surety of a similar amount or a cash bail option of Ksh 30,000 pending the hearing of the matter on September 24^th, 2015.

The two officers identified as Kawa Lumungati and Hassan Chesebe are alleged to have stolen clothes worth Ksh 20,000 after they confiscated them from a suspect who was handed to them by members of the public on August 7^th, 2015.

This comes barely a week after three officers from Nakuru Police Station were arraigned in a Kericho court and charged with abduction and extortion

The officers, Charles Shikami, Steve Mwongera and Francis Gitau were released on a cash bail of Ksh 100,000 each.

By Bernice Sila