Officer made Sh59m after six years in the traffic department

A police officer had a hard time explaining how she accumulated wealth and assets worth Sh59 million after only six years in the traffic department.

Constable Agnes Chebii was appearing at the ongoing vetting of junior traffic officers in the Rift Valley. She told one of the two panels at Kunste Hotel in Nakuru Town she was a farmer and sold second-hand clothes.

At one stage, Mr Kavuludi reprimanded Ms Chebii for answering all questions with a monosyllable.

“You are the only officer who has not constructed a full sentence while answering questions. A police officer is a social person and the impression this panel gets is that you are not good enough,” he said.

Ms Chebii fell into trouble the moment she walked into the room and greeted the panel members with a casual “habari zenu” (how are you in Kiswahili), prompting Mr Kavuludi to send her out. “You are disrespectful. You must know how to deal with your seniors,” he said.

There was a light moment when Constable Nzuki Kimanzi told the panel he could not provide his wife’s bank statement as she had refused, saying there was nothing in her account.

“My wife refused to give me the bank statement but when I go back to Narok I will plead with her,” said Mr Nzuki.

“Go and tell her your job depends on her,” Mr Kavuludi responded.

The panel turned away a police officer attached to Kitale Traffic Base who had not submitted his academic papers. 

Corporal Mohamed Barisa Awach said he did his primary and secondary education in Tana River but never acquired a certificate.
He said his former primary school no longer exists.

Mr Kavuludi said the commission would write to the Inspector-General of Police to sack him if he did not produce the papers in seven days. 

Another officer surprised the panel when he produced a book he has written on the lives of officers. The book, titled The Paradox of love by Corporal Dennis Ouko Ntabo turned the session into a book review as each commissioner asked a question or two about it.

Corporal Ntabo said marriage breakdowns and poor living conditions inspired him to write the book.

“I want to appreciate this officer as he has gone beyond the call of duty and made a tremendous contribution by documenting the conditions under which he and his colleagues live,” said Mr Kavuludi.

Unlike most of his colleagues who were hard pressed to explain their huge M-Pesa transactions, Corporal Ntabo, who has been in the service for 11 years, had no unusual dealings.

NO CRAZY TRANSACTIONS

“No wonder this officer has no crazy transactions, he is too busy writing books,” Mr Kavuludi said as he bought a copy for Sh500.

Narrating his nasty experience on the institution of marriage while in the Police service, Corporal Ouko said that three days before he had his wedding, he found his wife in a compromising position in a lodging.

“I almost committed suicide as I felt rejected and I saw no meaning of life as I had just come from training and I was eager to join the family way,” said Corporal Ouko.

He said he had witnessed many police officers sharing houses turn to their colleagues’ wives while they were away on night shift duties.

“I will never forget this one embarrassing moment when one of the officers returned from a night shift and caught his wife on the act with a fellow police officer and the memory still haunts me,” he said.

The officer said that many of his colleagues were daily undergoing psychological torture and this has been transferred to their families when they go back home.

“It is high time we have counsellors in the police service because even those officers who misuse their arms and kill their colleagues are doing that because of lack of such crucial service,” he said.

The officer told the vetting panel that he was in the process of writing another book title Achieving integrity in the church” which will soon hit the bookstalls.

At least 16 traffic officers were vetted on Friday with the M-Pesa transactions taking the lion share of the investigations by the panellists.

Mr George Morara could not explain how the Sh2 million transactions in his M-Pesa account which he said was boosted by the second hand clothes business he was doing in Nyahururu Town.