Barely a month after she claimed that her house help stole Sh320,000 cash bail money, Molo OCS Chief Inspector Ann Kanori has again hit the headlines.

The senior officer and three of her juniors were on Friday night arrested after they attacked anti-graft officers who had gone to arrest her.

Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers had gone to the station to arrest the OCS who had demanded Sh10,000 from a member of the public.

The officers, Abdi Muktar, Joseph Njunguna, Ephraim Shombe, Nancy Kirui and Daniel Samuel recovered the treated money from the OCS who instead alerted her officers who attacked the anti-graft officers.

“EACC officers had gone to the station in respect of a complaint levelled against Ann Kanori Justus OCS Molo police station who had demanded money from a member of the public who instead reported the matter to EACC Nakuru,” police headquarters said.

“In the process of her being searched and the recovery of Sh10,000 treated money being made, the officers at the station attacked the EACC officers and arrested them and had them locked up in the cells without booking the report in the Occurrence Book (OB),” a brief to police headquarters read.

The officers sustained injuries and lost staff ID cards, phones, car keys, cash, handcuffs, photos of treated money, inventory of recovered money among other items.

Molo OCPD Samuel Mukhusi and the area deputy DCI boss Tobias Otieno visited the station and interrogated the EACC officers before the matter was escalated to the regional headquarters, Nakuru.

After interrogation, the senior officers facilitated the arrest of the OCS who was later taken to Nakuru.

Also arrested were the station officers, Constables Emily Atsieno, Peter Lemuli, Everline Chepkoech and Erick Kibet, who had arrested the EACC officers.

Rift Valley regional commissioner George Natembeya yesterday warned officers against resisting legal arrests. 

“No one is above the law. Such resistance is futile as you will finally be arrested. An officer of the law should cooperate once the other officers have identified themselves,” he said.