Police in Nakuru have arrested 128 suspects in the ongoing crackdown on the notorious confirmed criminal gang.
This comes in the wake of five women killed within Nakuru’s Mawanga area in the past two weeks.
The gang has been orchestrating a spate of armed robberies in the Rift Valley capital including wanton killings.
Recent unfolding led to Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Fred Matiang’i giving orders to launch an operation to flush out the said members of the notorious criminal gang.
According to the police, the group uses crude weapons including machetes, clubs, swords, and metal rods to execute their criminal acts.
Rift Valley Regional Commissioner Maalim Mohamed said various leaders have also recorded statements over their alleged link to the criminal outfit and anyone armed will be regarded as a gang member.
“Anyone who will be found armed with any of these items will be considered to be armed with an AK-47 rifle. There will be no difference between you and members of this group,” Maalim warned the public.
Maalim said as of now, 108 cases have been reported linked to the criminal gangs.
He said among the exhibits recovered from the arrested suspects include mobile phones, and sim cards among other items.
“We have 406 phones, 40 laptops, 62 knives, six swords, 15 machetes over 100kgs of bhang, and 3,367 rolls of hard drugs including heroin,” Maalim said.
The commissioner said they have also impounded ten stolen motorcycles in the operation but no one has come forward to claim them.
He said they have mapped out hotspot areas with a high presence of the gang where authorities will focus their operations.