CCTV Shows How Daring Robbers In Police Uniform Stormed Petrol Station

The suspects had led the employees to one of the station’s offices and thereafter forced them and the watchman to lie down inside the office...

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Apr 22, 2023 - 14:31
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CCTV Shows How Daring Robbers In Police Uniform Stormed Petrol Station
Robbers in police uniform rob a petrol station in Matungulu, in Machakos County captured on CCTV on April 22, 2023. /CITIZEN DIGITAL

CCTV footage surfaced on Saturday, April 22 showing a group of five men wearing police uniforms robbing a petrol station near Nguluni Market in Matungulu sub-county, Machakos County.

The suspects were seen in the first scene of the footage arriving at the station with three employees whose hands were tied up, claiming that they had beaten them up and pretending that they were doing a follow-up.

The suspects had led the employees to one of the station’s offices and thereafter forced them and the watchman to lie down inside the office before tying and locking them up inside a men’s toilet.

However, their attempts to break into a safe were futile, even though it was said that they made away with Ksh5,000.

Here is the video courtesy of Citizen Digital:

“They tied our hands to the back and started robbing us of all our money. They took our phones but left them on a table.

"After robbing us, they took us to the men’s washroom where they made us lie down and locked us inside,” one of the attendants at the petrol station recounted.

Initially, the attendants did not raise an alarm as the men were dressed in police uniforms and appeared harmless.

“I saw one of them was fully dressed as an administration police (AP) officer,” disclosed one of the attendants victimized by the attackers.

A customer service attendant revealed that three of the men first arrived at around 2 am wearing police uniforms and entered the office where their other colleague was waiting. The three, according to him, were accompanied by a person who seemed to have been beaten up.

The suspects interrogated the attendant, compelling him to reveal if he was the one who beat him up but denied it. Meanwhile, the same question was posed by the trio to a security guard and other attendants, who denied as well while being ransacked, tied and locked up in the washrooms.

While still locked up, the workers told Citizen Digital they could hear “a sound of metal hitting the wall as if someone was trying to break into the safe through the wall.” Another witness also recalled hearing a sound of a motorbike coming to fuel but nobody attended to him.

Machakos Police Commander Joseph Ole Napeiyan, while confirming the incident, said a bodaboda rider who had gone to fuel but was not attended to filed a report at Nguluni Police Post and the officers responded and came to the rescue of the workers. He however revealed that nothing was stolen since the robbers did not manage to break into the safe but they had launched a probe into the matter.

Naipeiyan however noted that people have uniforms close to police regalia and that it should not be proof that they are officers, adding that they have treated the case as an attempted robbery and an inquiry had been opened into the same.

On Friday, January 6, 2023, a forensic expert based at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)’s Forensic Fingerprint Identification Bureau was admitted at the Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral hospital after he was attacked by armed gangsters who impersonated police officers at Kahawa West in Nairobi.

Officers outside the entrance of DCI headquarters. /FILE

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