Motorists have been asked to be careful whenever they are driving at night due to rising cases of carjackings in and around the capital.
This comes after a team of detectives from the Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI) on Sunday, May 30, arrested a gang of highway robbers who have been terrorizing Nairobians using the Southern bypass.
The detectives waylaid and arrested three armed suspects among them a 15-year-old boy.
The DCI identified the other two suspects as Brian Mwangi and Nickson Muchiri, both 25 years of age. The operation was carried out by Langata-based Police Officers.
The three suspects were found with two motorbikes and an assortment of crude weapons all of which are in police custody as exhibit.
The suspects will be arraigned in court today to answer to charges of preparing to commit a felony, contrary to section 308 (1) of the penal code.
Their arrest follows a spate of attacks that have been staged against motorists, along the busy highway. Last week, six other suspects were flushed out of the forest in a similar operation, after they attacked a motorist and his 3-year-old son.
In yet another incident, a motorist was carjacked outside Ruaka One River Apartments on the evening of May 7, 2021. The criminals drove away in his vehicle, a Toyota Premio.
According to the detectives, the owner of the car was carjacked by a gang of armed criminals as he drove to his residence at night from work.
“The victim pulled over by the apartment’s gate, unaware that a gang of three assailants was laying in wait for him. As the gates opened, the driver’s window was suddenly smashed with an iron rod, before two shots were fired in the air from a pistol in an attempt to subdue him.
“However, he managed to force his way into the parking lot, a move that wouldn’t waver the gangs’ robbery mission. Before he could jump out of the car to run for safety, the trio caught up with him, roughed him up before grabbing his car keys and phone,” stated the DCI officers who are investigating the incident.
According to DCI detectives based in Kiambu who responded after receiving the alarm – the criminals drove towards Ndenderu.
The detectives later found the stolen vehicle abandoned in Kagongo village, having been extensively vandalized.