A senior AP officer in Nyeri county was on Thursday questioned about Sh5 million in his bank account.
Gatundu subcounty AP superintendent Josephat Kimuhu told the National Police Service Commission he runs a business alongside his official duties.
He said he runs a bar and restaurant in Saba Saba town, Murang’a county, which has a profit of about Sh30,000 each
month.
NPSC commissioner Mary Owour asked if there is a conflict of interest for Kimuhu as he fights proliferation of illicit brews and drugs, but he also operates a bar.
“I sell only legal brews and I have employed six workers who operate the bar. I visit there when I’m off duty as it is 50km away from my work place. The workers strictly follow Mututho laws,” explained the officer, who is due to retire next June.
But Kimuhu, who has been in the service for 36 years, complicated the matter when he said he uses his vehicle for the bar business when off duty by ferrying beer to the bar.
The panel told him to furnish the tax declaration report of the last two years.
The vetting of 135 Nyeri police officers which kicked off on Thursday at Red Court Hotel near Nyeri town will continue up to next week.
At the same time, former Nyeri Central OCPD Adiel Nyange was also put on the spot over last year’s case, where five youths were brutally murdered at Tagwa Forest in Kieni East.
Nyange, answering questions from Law Society of Kenya member Vincent Muguku, said he received the letter from teh Independent Policing Oversight Authority last March after the youths were killed.
Muguku wanted Nyange to confirm that it was his junior police officers who arrested the five youths in Ruring’u township near Nyeri town before they were found dead in the forest.
The lawyer wanted to know if there was any abuse of human rights.
However, Nyange said he was not aware that the youths were arrested.
Nyange, who is now in charge of Machakos divisional headquarters, caused laughter in the session when he explained how he became bankrupt by investing in the quail business that collapsed in 2013.
Superintendent of police Joshua Suiyanka, now based at the national police headquarters, was also vetted.
Nyeri residents did not attend the session though it was a public forum.