The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has published pictures of people believed to have broken into people's businesses during anti-finance bill demos.
DCI explained that the groups captured on CCTV were joyriders in the anti-finance bill demos with ulterior motives.
The crime busters accused the groups of taking advantage of the situation and breaking into electronic shops, boutiques and supermarkets among others and making away with different commodities.
"When the Kenyan youths (Gen Z) organized nationwide peaceful protests to exercise their democratic right rejecting the proposed 2024/2025 Finance Bill, other groups with criminal minds took advantage of the situation and devised schemes to cause harm and economically frustrate fellow Kenyans."
"Posing as demonstrators, the bad elements who were also well-organized earmarked several business premises including boutiques, electronic shops and supermarkets, breaking in and massively looting to the detriment of innocent business owners," DCI said in a tell-it-all statement on their official social media pages.
The sleuths vowed to investigate and bring to book any persons involved in "such outright criminality" which not only robbed numerous Kenyans of their means of livelihood but also worked towards compromising an otherwise crucial constitutional right.
"The DCI’s Imaging and Acoustic Unit domiciled at the National Forensic Laboratory has since retrieved numerous CCTV footage that captured identifiable persons, whose felonious acts isolate them from the hundreds of thousands that stuck to their course," the crime busters said.
They confirmed that some had been arrested and arraigned in various courts on Monday, July 1 and more were still under their radar.
They appealed to the public to share any information about individuals seen breaking and looting private businesses in different parts of the country.
The business community in Nairobi has complained that the anti-finance bill demonstrations have plunged them into untold losses.
Some took to social media to accuse a section of the protesters of breaking into their shops and walking away with different accessories and appliances.
In the demos that took place in over 15 counties, rogue protesters broke and looted supermarkets, shops and properties of some Members of Parliament accused of voting for the Finance Bill 2024.
