Police officers drawn from Kipsitet Police Station in Kericho County on Sunday, May 21, saved a trader on the verge of losing goods he imported from Tanzania and destined for Busia.
According to a police report, the attempted robbery with violence took place along the Muhoroni-Kipsitet road in the Bangla area.
Kipsitet police officers revealed that they stumbled upon the five-armed gangsters while they were offloading a vehicle they had hijacked.
“Officers from Kipsitet Police Station, while on patrol, encountered a motor vehicle - Mitsubishi Fuso - driven by two men transporting farm produce to Busia from Tanzania.
“The duo was being robbed by five gangsters that had cut the rear canvas of the vehicle,” the police statement read in part.
The officers quickly swung into action and confronted the armed thieves.
Three of them managed to flee while two were arrested and are awaiting arraignment in the court.
“Also recovered were two homemade guns fitted with five rounds of .22mm ammunition, a metallic axe, a kitchen knife, two torches and a mobile phone,” the statement revealed.
The police launched investigations into the incident and are carrying out a manhunt with the aim of arresting the suspects still at large.
This was the second high-profile arrest made in Kericho County in a span of two weeks after security officers from the region arrested two suspects on Sunday, May 14, suspected of orchestrating a string of robberies in Homa Bay County.
“The suspects are believed to have been hired to commit murder and other atrocities in the county,” a statement from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) read in part.
