EACC Pounces on Nairobi Police Boss Demanding Sh5000 Bribe from Revellers

A senior officer commanding a Nairobi police station is on the spot for detaining a group of revellers at the Fun City club in Utawala. 

Officers attached to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Saturday evening busted Chief Inspector Duncan Otieng, the OCS for Ruai Police Station, demanding bribes from the partygoers. 

Relatives of the victims reported the EACC officers who immediately acted. 

The detectives apprehended the OCS after investigations into a complaint received from relatives of some of the detained revellers.

He was accused of arbitrarily detaining them. 

The revellers were put in police cells until the following day.

The OCS threatened the detainees that they would spend an entire weekend in custody if they failed to settle the bribe demands.

Upon verification of the claims, EACC detectives mounted an operation leading to the arrest of the OCS while he continued to receive the demanded bribes.

The OCS was processed at Integrity Centre Police Station last night and is currently detained at Kilimani Police Station awaiting further action in accordance with the law.

CEO Twalib Mbarak while confirming the arrest expressed concern that the Commission continues to receive many complaints of this nature where Officers Commanding Police Stations (OCSs) are locking up citizens, especially young people, then demanding bribes from them as a condition for release from custody. 

Urging police officers to desist from this unacceptable habit, Mbarak noted that in some cases, persons are reportedly put in police cells without being booked for any offence in the Occurrence Book (OB) and later compelled to pay bribes in order to freedom. 

The CEO appreciated that citizens are increasingly reporting such cases of extortion by police to the EACC instead of succumbing to bribe demands and urged Kenyans to equally embrace the culture of obeying the law in all situations.