Police arrested three Ugandans and a Kenyan robbery suspect and recovered an AK47 rifle and three pistols on Thursday night in Nairobi.’

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said the suspects were behind a series of robberies and were identified through profiling besides being placed at various scenes of crime, including Western region.’

The recovered firearms are said to have been used in robberies in Eastleigh’ Fourth Street where a shop attendant was robbed as he was in two incidents in Bungoma. In the first incident, a couple was killed after the suspects raided their homestead while in the second one a police officer was shot on the leg in the town during a foiled robbery.

One of them was found with a pistol tucked in his waistband.

Detectives from the DCI’s Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) and Operation Action Team (OAT) conducted an intelligence-led operation and arrested the four within Saika in Kayole Sub-County, Dandora within Kamukunji Sub-County and Huruma within Starehe Sub-County.

“Following incidents of robbery with violence cases reported within Starehe Sub-County being committed by well-organized armed gang and executing the robberies with impunity using pistols and a riffle, a joint operation was undertaken on Thursday night,” the Nairobi Region police commander George Sedah said.

The suspects have been identified as Sifoli Wafula alias Sande, Ogomba Alex, Mohamed Musa, all Ugandans and Wafula Clinton, a Kenyan.

Upon interrogation, Wafula led the officers to his rented house within Saika where a Falcon Pistol was recovered hidden in a pillow. The other suspect, Ogomba also led the detectives to his rented house within Dandora where the AK47 rifle was recovered.