Machakos: CCTV footage captures men in police uniform attempting to rob petrol station

In the Friday night incident captured on CCTV, the ‘officers’ gang reportedly came with a person claiming to have been beaten by the staff at the filling station pretending they were doing a follow-up.

They then forced the attendants and the watchman to lie down inside the office before tying and locking them up inside a men’s toilet.

According to a Customer Service attendant Timothy Mwangangi Kaloki, three of the men first arrived at around 2 am wearing police uniform and entered the office where their other colleague was waiting.

He says the three were accompanied by one person who seemed to have been beaten up.

They asked the attendant whether he was the one who beat the man and he denied it. The trio proceeded with the same question to the security guard and other attendants who also denied it and were ransacked before being tied and locked up in the washrooms.

While still locked up, the workers told Citizen Digital they could hear “a sound of metal hitting the wall as if someone was trying to break into the safe through the wall.”

Another witness Darius Mutunga said he also heard a sound of a motorbike coming to fuel but nobody attended to him.

They would later realize that the men were trying to break into a safe to steal but their attempts were futile.

Confirming the incident via phone, Machakos Police Commander Joseph Ole Napeiyan said a bodaboda rider who had gone to fuel but was not attended to filed a report at Nguluni Police Post and the officers responded and came to the rescue of the workers.

He said nothing was stolen since the robbers did not manage to break into the safe but they had launched a probe into the matter.

Naipeiyan however noted that people have uniforms close to police regalia and that it should not be proof that they are officers.

He added that they have treated the case as an attempted robbery and an inquiry had been opened into the same.

CCTV footage obtained from the management showed how the robbers orchestrated the whole operation as they tried to dig through the wall but could not manage it and later left disappointed.