{"id":21047,"date":"2026-01-13T15:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21047\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:59:16","slug":"three-traffic-police-officers-arrested-for-bribery-on-nairobi-mombasa-highway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21047\/","title":{"rendered":"Three traffic police officers arrested for bribery on Nairobi-Mombasa highway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Joseph<\/a> By
\n
\n Joseph Muia
\n <\/a>
\n Published on: January 13, 2026 05:16 (EAT)
\n \"Three <\/p>\n

Corporals Lucy Ekwam Nabun, David GItonga Gikunda and Herman Echakara after their arrest. PHOTOS | COURTESY | EACC<\/p>\n

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Detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission
\n(EACC) have arrested three traffic police officers over allegations of
\nsoliciting and receiving bribes at a roadblock in Kyumbi area near Machakos
\nJunction on the Nairobi\u2013Mombasa Highway.<\/p>\n

The three corporals; David Gitonga, Herman Echakara, and Lucy Ekwan, are attached to the Kyumbi Traffic Police Base in Machakos County.<\/p>\n

According to the commission, one officer evaded the Tuesday arrest,
\nand efforts to trace and apprehend the suspect are still ongoing. <\/p>\n

The suspects were escorted to the EACC Lower Eastern
\nRegional Office in Machakos, where they were processed and have since recorded
\ntheir statements.<\/p>\n

While urging the public to report any incidents of bribery
\nor corruption, the anti-graft body reassured its
\ncommitment to combating corruption within law enforcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cEACC urges members of the public and law enforcement
\nofficers to report any incidents of bribery or corruption to the Commission, as
\npart of a collective responsibility to uphold ethical standards and strengthen
\npublic trust,\u201d stated EACC Head of Communications Stephen Karuga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Joseph Muia Published on: January 13, 2026 05:16 (EAT) Corporals Lucy Ekwam Nabun, David GItonga Gikunda and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3672,3109,3967,80,578,1179],"class_list":{"0":"post-21047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-citizen-digital","9":"tag-corruption","10":"tag-eacc","11":"tag-kenya","12":"tag-mombasa","13":"tag-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}