A worrying trend where Government officials are leading in the transportation of contraband is cropping up steadily as they use Government registered plates to go past police roadblocks.
Monday, police impounded a lorry carrying illegally cut cedar after it fell in the ditch.
The lorry is said to belong to the Anti-Stock Theft police department along the Kisii-Bomet-Narok border and was having officers onboard at the time of the accident.
Bomet Base Commander Chief Inspector Richard Psaima is said to have rushed to the scene of the accident to prevent the officers from transferring the wood into another lorry.
In 2018, a GSU lorry was nabbed after it got involved in an accident while ferrying charcoal in the area.
Confirming the incident, Chepalungu police boss Nelson Masai noted that investigations were underway to establish the culprits behind the racket.
“It is true the lorry veered off the road in the morning with three officers on board. We are investigating how a government vehicle was illegally used to ferry forest products,” he said.
Residents revealed that the lorry uses the route three times a week ferrying products of illegal logging from Narok to Bomet counties.
“It is unfortunate that police officers tasked with enforcing the law are the same ones breaking it with impunity,” activist Tyson Kiprotich Saitoti.