Police arrest members of notorious gang

Police in Eldoret are holding four members of a suspected criminal gang linked to a series of robberies in recent weeks.

Among the four members of the gang identified as Death Nigger Associatio are two schoolboys aged 16 and 17 years.

According to the police, the suspects are behind a spate of robberies and other criminal activities in  Uasin Gishu and neighboring counties.

The two arrested teenagers, police said, are students of a local secondary school in Uasin Gishu.

Their ring leader managed to escape a sting operation staged in Kingongo, a notorious crime blackspot on the outskirts of Eldoret on Thursday afternoon.

But they were arrested later in the evening in the sprawling informal settlement of Langas, Kapseret, following a crackdown mounted by police officers.

Police officers drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and their regular counterparts led by Baharini OCS Abdi Hassan also arrested a woman during the operation.

The officers claimed that intelligence reports indicated that the woman has been hosting man believed to be the ringleader of the group.

Turbo DCIO Richard Okeri claimed the gang members affiliated to DNA have been wreaking havoc in Huruma, Kahoya, Kipkaren and Shauri estates in the past two weeks.

Okeri said the ring leader of the notorious criminal gang managed to evade police arrest during the crackdown on criminal groups that have emerged in the region but was later cornered while taking refuge in Langas estate about six kilometers from the scene.

“The area County Police Commander had ordered for the arrest of the gangs immediately and I can promise, we are hot on the heels of the ring leader of the criminal gang calling its DNA and their accomplices. It’s just a matter of time before we catch up with them,” said Okeri.

He said that officers are carrying out their crackdown in areas where the gang members who are normally armed with crude weapons are believed to carry out their attack mission on innocent citizens at night.

“This is just a humbled warning to both parents and their children that we will not going to leave any stone unturned, these children should go to school. We cannot allow members of the gang who include minors to wreak havoc in various estates in the county,” added Okeri.

Okeri stated several informal settlement areas that include Huruma, Kingogo, Kidiwa, Munyaka, and Shauri have been turned into a no go zone at night due to the criminal activities perpetrated by the gang calling itself DNA.

He said members of the gang have forced public and private schools in the affected areas to release their learners early due to fear of being attacked while on their way home late in the evening.

“We have to take this with issue a lot seriousness because the group involves school going children. If we can manage to arrest two students, how many of them are in different schools, so we cannot take lightly, we are using them to get more information,” He stated

This comes in wake hue and outcry from the public over the re-emergence of criminal gang outfits controlled by the young people.