MP wants probe on police officers allegedly colluding with criminals in Wajir

Wajir South MP Abdullahi Diriye. He has written to IPOA calling for immediate action against four police officers who have been accused of colluding with criminals and engaging in unprofessional activities. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP

What you need to know:

  • Mr Diriye claimed that the officers have been betraying members of the public who shared information with them to criminals.
  • Wajir County Police Commander Samuel Mukindia said he was not aware of any complaint against the said officers.
  • Some residents claimed that the officers had refused to accompany registration officers to villages.

Wajir South MP Abdullahi Diriye has written to Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) calling for immediate action against four police officers who have been accused of colluding with criminals and engaging in unprofessional activities.

Speaking to the nation in Garissa Wednesday, Mr Abdullahi Diriye said members of the public have been complaining against the four officers attached to Directorate of Criminal Investigations, accusing them of aiding foreigners entering the country illegally through the porous border.

Mr Diriye claimed that the officers have been betraying members of the public who shared information with them to criminals, which he said posed great danger to anyone volunteering information that could be helpful in curbing criminal activities such as terrorism within the constituency.

“It is now becoming difficult for the community to work with the officers specially in sharing information because, according to the public, each time they provide information to the officers they betray them or collude with the criminals,” read the letter addressed to IPOA.

ASSISTING FOREIGNERS

“Wananchi are complaining that the officers harass them and aid aliens and contrabands to freely enter the country. This is therefore to seek for urgent intervention,” read the letter.

In Habaswein Town, the headquarters of Wajir Constituency, locals told the Nation that the officers have abandoned their work adding that they refuse to accompany officers going to villages outside the town to register people for identity cards citing insecurity.

However, Wajir County Police Commander Samuel Mukindia said he was not aware of any complaint against the said officers by locals and their leaders but promised to investigate any misconduct by the officers.

“I am currently out of Wajir and I am not aware of any complains made against any officers but I will look into this matter as soon as I go back to Wajir,” he told the Nation by phone Wednesday.