Police officer arrested for abandoning KCSE exam centre to conduct chang’aa operation

A police officer was on Tuesday arrested for abandoning his duties to watch over KCSE proceedings at a local high school and for conducting an unsanctioned chang’aa sting operation in Kimngoror area, Nandi County.

According to a police report, the officer, police constable Daniel Leteipa stationed at Kamungei Police Post, was tasked with overseeing KCSE exams at Koiban Secondary School but went missing at around noon.

He is said to have proceeded to a homestead approximately a kilometer away from the school, owned by one Emmanuel Kipkoech, where he allegedly began searching for chang’aa, causing a commotion in the process.

Members of the public soon after surrounded the house and threatened to batter the officer after getting wind of the said commotion.  A local chief would later inform police at Chepterwai police post of the ongoing development.

“The OCS Chepterwai Police Station rushed to the scene and upon interrogation, the officer was unable to give a sustainable account as to why he had left the exam center and who had assigned him illicit liquor operations,” the police report reads.

Leteipa was soon after disarmed, arrested and handed over to the County’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) department for further investigations.