Friday, November 1,
2024 – Four
suspected highway robbers were arrested in Vihiga’s Emuhaya sub-county, after a
foiled theft attempt on a transit truck ferrying cement from Machakos to Busia
via the Kisumu – Busia route.
In
the 6am incident at Asikote section, the 55-year-old driver of the FAW truck
belonging to Mombasa Cement Ltd spotted people hanging on the left side door before the door flung open and they started throwing out sacks of cement.
He
hooted repeatedly to scare them off but the illegal offloading continued, with
more of the thugs dragging the felled bags to the thickets. This made the
driver to stop the truck, only for the men to advance towards him.
Luckily,
Embali Police Station officers who were on patrol got curious about the rapid
honks, speeding to the location just in time to save the overpowered driver.
The
robbers scampered into the thickets with the police on their shadow, except one
– Bernard Ochoyi Omari, 33 – who was cornered and arrested shouldering one of
the stolen 50kg bags.
The
officers swept the thickets and nearby houses, recovering 9 bags of the
stolen cement. Of the bags, one was recovered at the house of a suspect namely
Boaz Amunabi Joshua alias Spear, and in the course of the search, the officers
also recovered a blood-stained machete, 21 mosquito nets, a sack of wheat among
other suspected stolen items.
Other
suspects arrested in the operation included Francis Khulali, 70, Anthony Etale,
22, and Winnie Odongo Ombati, 28. They were all placed in custody awaiting
processing for arraignment on Friday, November 1.
The Kenyan
DAILY POST.
