University Student Leads DCI To Colleagues In Nairobi Criminal Gang
The suspect led the officers to his 3 accomplices who are fellow freshers...
Marvin Chege 
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are interrogating four university students believed to be part of a gang behind incidents of violent robberies in Ruai, Juja, Kayole and surrounding areas.
The DCI revealed on Sunday, February 12 that this is after an undercover team of police officers based at Makadara, Ruai, Embakasi and Kayole on Saturday evening, February 11 in a joint operation arrested a 19-year-old Kenyatta University student, following intelligence leads that he was part of a dangerous criminal gang.
The suspect led the officers to his 3 accomplices who are fellow freshers, living at Kwa Benson apartments in Juja’s Container area.
A photo collage of recovered items by the DCI during the raid in Juja on February 12, 2023. /DCI
During the operation, Richard Lankisa, 18, Brian Kituku, 19 and Emmanuel Nyangwencha, 18, all of them pursuing a degree course in Development Studies at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology were arrested.
This is after a thorough search conducted in their single room led to the recovery of an imitation of a Glock pistol, 8 used 9×19mm special cartridges, one empty pistol magazine, one white plastic face mask, and two laptops believed to have been stolen property among other items.
The scene was processed by crime scene detectives based at DCI Thika and the suspects were escorted to Juja police station l pending further interrogation and arraignment before a court.
The arrest continues Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kithure Kindiki's ruthless crackdown on criminal gangs, among them violent muggers and bandits across the country.
He claimed on Monday, February 6 that the increase in security in the Nairobi Central Business District (CBD) has led to a reduction in mugging cases that were notorious in the last quarter of 2022.
"As our hardworking officers in the Elite specially trained formed units remain engaged to keep terror at bay, their colleagues on general duty have helped us to significantly reduce the general rate of crime in the country in the past three months," he said.
"Crime in the country has reduced by 13.5 per cent from 8,297 reported incidents to 7,179 incidents in absolute numbers. Urban crime especially the Nairobi muggings that had threatened to disrupt our way of life and businesses in our capital city in the September, and October Season has now been contained."
But as security agencies continue their crackdown on notorious criminals, some residents fear that a section of thugs are imploring new tricks in their bid to rob unsuspecting members of the public, more often from their places of residence.
Viral Tea exposed how a section of robbers pose as garbage collectors and how others collude with caretakers and meticulously plan to attack innocent members of the public and rob them of their belongings from inside their houses.
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