{UAH} Standard Digital News - Kenya : Stolen presidential escort car found abandoned in Uganda
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Standard Digital News - Kenya : Stolen presidential escort car found abandoned in Uganda
Tororo, Uganda: The presidential escortcar that was stolen in Nairobi has been recovered abandoned in Tororo, Uganda.
Police said the BMW 735 series car was found abandoned on the road after those who had stolen it realised they were being trailed.
"We have been informed that it was found on the roadside in Tororo and now it is being taken to Kampala before we get it," said Bungoma County CID boss Peter Mabeya, who was among those trailing it.
He added that they have arrested two more suspects in connection with the incident and they are under interrogation.
The search for the vehicle that went missing last Wednesday was extended to Uganda, after police were led there by informers.
The car had passed through a garage in Nakuru for alterations before it proceeded to the border then crossed to Uganda.
A team of detectives from Interpol and the Flying Squad left Nairobi for Tororo, Uganda Wednesday to get the car.
The number of suspects who are in custody over the incident are three among them a Nakuru mechanic, Aggrey Odhiambo, who was arrested at the weekend.
Odhiambo is accused being in possession of a stolen vehicle that was found dismantled at his garage. A firearm was also recovered from him.
He denied the charges and was remanded at the request of the prosecutor, who told the court that police intend to question him over the State House vehicle.
One of the drivers attached to President Kenyatta was attacked last week by four gunmen who stole the vehicle in Ruai, Nairobi. Police said the men knew his movement after it emerged that one of the gunmen who attacked the driver was masked and for the period they held him, the masked man did not utter a word, pointing to the possibility that he knew the victim.
The vehicle was among those that escorted the President to JKIA on last Wednesday. It was driven back to State House before one of the president's drivers took it home.
Police said Chief Inspector David Machui was driving into his compound in Ruai near Utawala, Nairobi when four men armed with an AK47 rifles confronted him.
They forced him into the back seat and drove off for six hours while questioning him who he was before they abandoned him naked a few metres from the Administration Police Training College in Embakasi.
According to police, the gunmen asked the officer whether the car belonged to him but he informed them it belonged to the Judiciary.
State House spokesperson Manoah Esipisu on Friday said Mr Machui lost Sh60,000, his mobile phone, watch and clothes.
Esipisu said the dark blue BMW 735, registered as GK A374E was purchased in 2000 but it had a civilian number plate KAW 479Y at the time it was stolen.
"The vehicle was used purely for police duties," Mr Esipisu said and dismissed reports that the vehicle was armoured and was part of the presidential fleet.
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