Four police officers were arrested on Thursday in connection with a brazen robbery involving millions of shillings in Nairobi, in a case that has sent shockwaves through law enforcement circles, with one of the officers reportedly attached to the office of the Deputy President and having previously been apprehended in a separate failed robbery incident in Kitengela Town, Kajiado County, earlier in the week.
The arrests took place in Embakasi Nairobi, marking the second operation within a span of two days to detain suspects linked to violent theft, and the officers are currently held at Embakasi Police Station pending formal arraignment, as investigations by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) continue to unravel the sequence of events surrounding the March 18, 2026 incident.
According to police reports, the four officers are connected to a robbery with violence case reported by a businessman and proprietor of Eastern Steel Mart based in Utawala, who stated that he had withdrawn Ksh 4.2 million from the Equity Bank Utawala branch on March 17, 2026, for a business transaction with Iron Era Limited located in Syokimau, and was subsequently intercepted while driving along Mombasa Road towards his intended destination by four men dressed in police uniforms and reflective jackets, two of whom were reportedly armed with pistols.
The victim recounted that the gang, believed to have followed him from the bank using a red Mazda CX-5, accused him of trafficking narcotics, handcuffed him, and forced him into their vehicle before stealing the cash and abandoning him in the Karen area of Nairobi, after which he reported the matter at Karen Police Station, prompting the transfer of the case to the DCI office in Embakasi for thorough investigation.
During the investigation, the four officers were positively identified in an identification parade conducted at Isinya Police Station, after which they were presented before the Kajiado Magistrate’s Court and are scheduled for arraignment at the Makadara Law Courts on Friday, March 27, 2026, while police authorities continue to probe the extent of their involvement in both the Utawala incident and the separate episode in Kitengela, where a civilian victim escaped after being lured under false pretences and threatened while in possession of a diamond necklace valued at over USD 4,000, (Ksh 518,000) only to later discover that the assailants were serving police officers.
The Kitengela matter reportedly involved the officers moving the victim from Namanga to Kitengela under the pretext of a business transaction, after which he was attacked, handcuffed, and forced to call for help, drawing the attention of a local mob that escorted the suspects to the police station, only to realise that they were law enforcement officers, with the victim losing the necklace during the incident.
