{"id":84656,"date":"2024-08-29T12:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T12:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/29\/four-traffic-police-officers-arrested-by-eacc-over-bribery\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T12:03:29","slug":"four-traffic-police-officers-arrested-by-eacc-over-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/four-traffic-police-officers-arrested-by-eacc-over-bribery\/","title":{"rendered":"Four traffic police officers arrested by EACC over bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-1\">\n<p><strong>Officers from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) have arrested four traffic police officers for extorting motorists in Kericho.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EACC officers apprehended Rachael Aiyabei No. 77429 and Police Constable John Oluoch No. 92235 at a notorious bribe collection spot in Litein town, along Sotik-Kericho road.<\/p>\n<p>Following the arrests of the two officers, Cynthia Kemoi No. 73151 and PC Philip Sitienei No. 79604 were arrested along the Kericho-Nakuru Road near Kaisugu Tea Factor bringing the total number to four4).<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the arrest on Thursday, the Commission, through its Spokesperson Eric Ngumbi, said that the Commission intervened following numerous complaints that traffic police officers along Sotik-Kericho road were notoriously extorting money from motorists and members of the public in the guise of traffic law enforcement, thus contributing to road accidents.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, who were arrested on Tuesday evening, were processed at EACC South Rift Regional Offices in Nakuru, on Wednesday and released on bail pending finalization of the probe.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission reminds members of the public that while majority view bribery as petty corruption, its implications are gross as it compromises road safety to extent of claiming lives.<\/p>\n<p>Non-compliance with the established road safety regulations on account of payment of bribes is a notable cause of the road accidents witnessed on major highways, especially from Nairobi to Western Kenya.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/four-traffic-police-officers-arrested-by-eaac-over-bribery\/\">Four traffic police officers arrested by EACC over bribery<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) have arrested four traffic police officers for extorting motorists in Kericho. EACC officers apprehended Rachael Aiyabei No. 77429 and Police Constable John Oluoch No. 92235 at a notorious bribe collection spot in Litein town, along Sotik-Kericho road. Following the arrests of the two officers, Cynthia Kemoi No. [&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-84656","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\/84656","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=84656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}