A bodyguard attached to nominated Senator Joyce Korir and a Kapenguria police station officer are among seven suspects arrested on Thursday in connection to a case of robbery with violence incident that happened in December in Buret, Kericho county.
The two according to police were arrested after investigations linked them to the December 28 carjacking and robbery incident that saw businessman Wesley Kimngeno Tonui part with Sh156,000.
Wesley said he was leaving his friend’s home on the aforementioned day when the seven men who identified themselves as police officers accosted him.
Kimngeno told police that the men driving a Toyota RAV4 and a Toyota Axio blocked his way before placing him in handcuffs, seizing his phone and bundling him up in the Toyota RAV4 motor vehicle.
“Two men boarded his motor vehicle and all the three vehicles were driven towards Bomet through Kaplong direction. They later stopped at a petrol station where they returned his phone and ordered him to pay for fuel.” police said.
In the process, he managed to disable the vehicle using the car track mobile application, and the car stopped in the middle of the road.
Worried about their safety, the robbers fled from the scene using another car while the other vehicle took the businessman to the Kiptagich area in Mau Forest where they ordered him to transfer all his money from his bank account to his mobile phone account.
It is reported that the victim had a total of Sh131,000 which he deposited to his mobile account and was also ordered to call his friends and relatives who later sent him a total of Sh25,000.
The victim said after that they took him to an Mpesa shop where he was forced to withdraw the cash before leaving him there. Kimngeno was at this point able to board a motorcycle to Litein.
Preliminary investigations show that the stalled vehicle that belonged to Kinmngeno was later towed to Bomet police station.
The suspects who were arraigned at a Kericho court pleaded not guilty and were granted a bond of Sh1 million plus two sureties.