Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi is set to lead a security team to Nakuru Wednesday for a series of meetings to discuss incidents of insecurity so far recorded in the town.
This comes in the wake of sustained operation on a gang called Confirm that has been blamed on the incidents that left at least five people dead in weeks. More than 30 suspects have since been arrested and dozens of crude weapons recovered in an operations.
So far three local MPs have recorded statements at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations over their alleged links to the dreaded ‘Confirm Gang’ terrorising residents in the county.
Rift Valley Regional Commissioner Mohamed Maalim yesterday confirmed police had summoned the trio for more information on the gang, which has been a security nightmare.
Maalim said Nakuru Town East MP David Gikaria and his Nakuru Town West counterpart Samuel Arama had been mentioned as persons of interest in the matter.
Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri voluntarily recorded a statement on claims that he knows the financiers.
Ngunjiri is said to have informed the security team that the gang had been transported to Nakuru by influential people to commit crime
Matiang’i, Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai and Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti are set to visit today and give more directions on the resolutions agreed in the area.
Two suspected thugs were last night shot dead in two separate robbery incidents and a pistol recovered from them in Nairobi in the fight against crime.
Police said the first incident happened in Pangani area where a gang of four had been attacking and robbing pedestrians while armed with knives.
Police were alerted and managed to shoot and kill one while the other accomplices escaped on foot. Stolen property was recovered from him.
The second incident happened in South B area where three men on a motorbike tried to stage a robbery but were confronted by police who were under cover leading to the fatal shooting of one of them.
The other two escaped on the motorcycle amid search. Police say they have intensified the war on armed crime with more squads being sent to the field to contain the trend.
