By Bett Kipsang’
A man with questionable
appearance was Friday morning intercepted by police officers in Sipili trading
center. Residents were startled at the sight of a middle aged man, in tatters
and carrying what many feared were crude weapons.
Three armed police officers, ostensibly
were coming back from a security operation when they spotted the suspicious
looking man. He was dressed in dirty tatters and was carrying a machete (panga)
and a piece of wood with sharp pointed hooks. Surprisingly the man had smeared
what looked like grease on the machete and hooked stick.
The man's coat was zipped up with
stuff stacked inside making the abdomen bulge out. The officers suspected the
character and ordered him to remove everything he had stacked under his
tattered cloths.
The officers watched as the man churned
out paraphernalia, ranging from empty bottles, polythene bags, tobacco and
snuff. He was later ordered to burn all his stuff in a nearby rubbish
pit.
Confirming the concerns of
residents, the officer in charge of Sipili police post, Mr. Kennedy Moenga,
told LRV that he had received distressed calls from community members over the
behaviour of that man.
LRV has also established that the man had earlier been jailed
on several incidences. A neighbor, who sought anonymity, confided in the LRV that ‘‘At one time, the man was
arrested, judged and jailed for about five years for assaulting his own mother’’.
He has also been arrested for
stealing and slaughtering three goats belonging to his neighbors. At one time
when police went to arrest him, they discovered that he had planted some
illegal weed (cannabis sativa) around
his Dincom village house, alongside flowers. Neighbours reported that the guy
smokes ‘‘weed’’ openly, without a
flinch.
‘‘Police are closely keeping watch to
monitor his reform process’’ said Mr. Moenga.
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