{"id":120532,"date":"2025-08-29T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/29\/eacc-arrests-traffic-police-officers-for-alleged-bribery-along-nairobi-embu-highway\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:03:05","slug":"eacc-arrests-traffic-police-officers-for-alleged-bribery-along-nairobi-embu-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/eacc-arrests-traffic-police-officers-for-alleged-bribery-along-nairobi-embu-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"EACC arrests traffic police officers for alleged bribery along Nairobi-Embu Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 29 \u2013 Four traffic police officers have been arrested along the Nairobi-Nyeri-Embu Highway for allegedly soliciting and receiving bribes from motorists, matatu operators, and truck drivers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission the arrests followed an undercover operation after receiving reports from members of the public regarding rampant extortion along the busy highway.<\/p>\n<p>Those apprehended are reportedly attached to Makutano Traffic Base and Juja Traffic Base.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were escorted to the EACC Integrity Centre in Nairobi for processing and to record their statements.<\/p>\n<p>The EACC confirmed that the officers are expected to face corruption-related charges once ongoing investigations is complete.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 29 \u2013 Four traffic police officers have been arrested along the Nairobi-Nyeri-Embu Highway for allegedly soliciting and receiving bribes from motorists, matatu operators, and truck drivers. According to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission the arrests followed an undercover operation after receiving reports from members of the public regarding rampant extortion along the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}