Kenya: Makueni-Based Police Officer Arrested in Emali a Day After Inciting Riots

20 July 2023
Capital FM (Nairobi)

Nairobi — A police officer based in Makueni was arrested on Thursday, a day after joining rioters who stoned a police station during an opposition protest.

Police said Constable Evans Otieno, who was arrested in Emali along the Nairobi Mombasa highway, was also found in possession of forty rolls of bhang, a banned substance.

Otieno is said to have commanded a troop of rowdy youth who barricaded the highway while throwing stones at motorists on the busy corridor connecting the country's capital in the coastal city of Mombasa.

A police report estimated the value of cannabis sativa Otieno was in possession of at Sh2,000.

"Please be informed that No.117670 Pc Evans Otieno of this command whose recommendation letter ref. kps/Dig/Est/Hrm/30/vol.v/4 dated June 19, 2023, was arrested today the 20 day of July 2023 along Msa/Nbi highway at Emali," the report read.

"The said officer was also seen by his colleagues yesterday the 19th of July 2023 being among the rioters who were pelting stones at Emali police station and police officers."

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