Sometimes it can shock you when security officers whom you trust to provide adequate security for you and your business turns out to be the person who is indeed stealing from you.
Well, two police officers on Saturday shocked many in the country after a CCTV camera caught them stealing from a bar and an MPesa shop in Kasarani.
According to the owner of the bar and the MPesa shop Ms. Wanjiku Kariuki, the two officers knocked at her door in the evening claiming to be officers accompanying census officials.
Upon opening the door for them, the officers who were in police uniforms instead started harassing her claiming that they were after robbery suspects who were hiding in the area.
In the footage, two police officers from KBC Police station are seen perusing the room before one embarks on an MPesa shop where it is alleged that he picked a phone which was charging together with some money inside the shop.
Wanjiku claimed that the officers have so far threatened her against reporting the incident. She says that the raid was as a result of her refusal to bribe the officer with sh. 1,000 they usually demand while on patrol.
Kioo hakidanganyi!: Maafisa wa polisi wanaswa kwa CCTV wakiiba katika baa na Mpesa Kasarani. Haya na mengine ni katika #NTVJioni na @HarithSalim_81 na @Nuru_AbdulAziz pic.twitter.com/bVcA4h6S7A
— NTV Kenya (@ntvkenya) August 29, 2019
Following NTV’s revelations, most Kenyans took to social media sites to express their frustrations over what they termed as a rotten security sector in the country. Here are some of the reactions from Facebook and Twitter;
Ni kinaya kuona afisa anayejali maslahi kuwaibia Tena. Washikwe na wafungwe miaka hata kumi
Nyamira— Mwalimu Bentiza Mogesa (@MwalimuBentiza) August 29, 2019
Miyka’El King’s The problem of police force is recruitment procedure which is soaked in corruption. We all know with some 200k you can get into KDF or whatever even if you fail their examination. Due to this botched recruitments in both KDF AND Police service we are left with hustlers and thugs wearing police uniforms, no wonder majority of them harass hardworking citizens every night of every day just to get some few hundreds to let you go free. WHAT we need is to set up thinkers who can come up with best methods of sourcing for candidates who are not only patriots but also with merit with a mind ready FOR SERVICE not bullies!
Kenya hatujui wapi tutapotelea police anakuibia na nguvu tena na punduki olio nunuliwa nacushuru wako
— Baba lucky (@Babalucky14) August 29, 2019
Bravo Kilo Mike Matiangi is a waste of tym and resources, he should be given something else…maneno ya interior should go to dem professionals
Liz Wambui Wamwathani Govt eating its own….you pay them peanuts,what do you expect….!!! Uhuru what you have done to this nation…. something we gonna remember and recover from for along long tym….
Innocent guarded by thiefs.
— 〽️oss🐾 (@Moss47777706) August 29, 2019
Ni kinaya kwamba wanaofaa kuwapa raia ulinzi ndo hao hao wenye kuvunja sheria kiholela. Wanafaa kushtakiwa na kupewa adhabu kali.
— Macharia Irungu (@Masharia_Irungu) August 29, 2019