Stop Arresting Police Officers as a PR Stunt – Lawyer to EACC

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 –Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi has written a letter to President William Ruto notifying him of concerted witch hunt by EACC against police officers.

In the open letter he shared with the public today Wednesday October 11, Ahmednasir firmly stated that Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission EACC was now applying a self-defeating strategy by arresting police officers who take as little as sh 50 from members of the public.

“Ruto must appreciate the inadequacy and self-defeating strategy of Kenya’s anti-corruption strategy that is entirely based on arresting police officers who take sh 50 from Matatus. Isn’t it plainly obvious that powerful Kenyans whether they are in the previous regime or the current one including ministers, permanent Secretaries, judges, heads of state corporations especially lucrative ones like KENHA, KURA, ROADS BOARD, NSSF, NHIF et al cannot be touched? Posed Ahmednasir.

He argued that the main reason the ‘big men’ in government cannot be affected by the arrests is because they can bribe out their way using the same resources looted from the public offices they hold.

“These men and women, unlike the policemen, who are arrested daily sit on a war chest of billions of shillings and buy and bribe officials who are mandated to investigate them,” he stated.

He wondered how the EACC was hellbent on arresting the juniors police officers when there are other high profile corrupt officers moving free out there.

“This nonsense must end and President William Ruto must start leading the war against corruption or openly tell us that he has no time,” he added.

He also recommended that President Ruto must reintroduce lifestyle audit of all the judges in the country saying most judges are now buying properties from proceeds of graft.

The lawyer was speaking this after the EACC yesterday announced arresting four traffic police cops over collecting bribes from motorists along the busy Thika-Garissa Highway.

Those who were arrested are Deborah Ngila (Deputy Base Commander), Rosemary Nyokabi Robert Kabiru and Christine Chebon.