Police net four over office fire
Kaberamaido offices were set ablaze to destroy evidence on corruption cases, the Police have said.
By Samuel Okiror
Kaberamaido offices were set ablaze to destroy evidence on corruption cases, the Police have said.
The acting regional officer in charge of the Criminal Investigations department, Alfred Egole, said preliminary investigations indicated that the four suspects arrested in connection with the incident set it on fire with malicious intent.
Fire last week gutted and destroyed the block that houses the finance, information, gender and community development offices.
It also gutted the production and probation offices and destroyed property worth millions of shillings. The police last week arrested the suspects Joseph Elenyu, a district driver and three office attendants, Julius Euchu, David Eleu and Patrick Emenyu.
“The fire may have been intended to destroy important accounts and audit reports related to corruption cases. We are yet to confirm this as the investigations go,†Egole said on Friday. The Inspector General of Government recently recommended that seven top district officials and two politicians be punished for misappropriating district funds.
They include chief finance officer Charles Dickens Ocung.
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Kaberamaido offices were set ablaze to destroy evidence on corruption cases, the Police have said.
The acting regional officer in charge of the Criminal Investigations department, Alfred Egole, said preliminary investigations indicated that the four suspects arrested in connection with the incident set it on fire with malicious intent.
Fire last week gutted and destroyed the block that houses the finance, information, gender and community development offices.
It also gutted the production and probation offices and destroyed property worth millions of shillings. The police last week arrested the suspects Joseph Elenyu, a district driver and three office attendants, Julius Euchu, David Eleu and Patrick Emenyu.
“The fire may have been intended to destroy important accounts and audit reports related to corruption cases. We are yet to confirm this as the investigations go,†Egole said on Friday. The Inspector General of Government recently recommended that seven top district officials and two politicians be punished for misappropriating district funds.
They include chief finance officer Charles Dickens Ocung.
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