Police in Nyandarua county have exposed a trick where stolen sheep and goats are dressed like human beings before being transported using motorcycles.
The County Commissioner Abdilasaak Jaldesa, speaking on Mashujaa Day said two motorbikes found being used for such tricks have been impounded but the riders managed to escape.
He said one the escaped riders was ferrying three sheep suspected to have been stolen in Nyandarua North sub county.
“I have instructed police to inspect all motorcycles being driven after 9pm in the County because we have realized some are being used by criminals,” the administrator said during the County Mashujaa Day celebration held at Mutanga stadium in Kiriita ward, Ndaragwa Constituency.
Second generation drink
Jaldesa who read the President’s speech also disclosed that a consignment of second-generation liquor suspected to be substandard was seized last Friday in a distillery operating in a private house within Mwireri village, in Gikingi Location of Ol-Joro Orok Constituency.
The administrator and the County Police Commander Omar Arero led police officers in a raid that unearthed the illicit distillery after a tip off.
During the raid an assortment of items among them two rolls of KRA stickers, branding stickers of some legal drinks, 27 jerricans containing ethanol, alcoholmeter, bottle tops, gunny bags, packaging cartons among others items were found in the house.
A vehicle in the compound believed to be used to transport the liquor to the market was also seized.
Witnesses said two chiefs who were from a church function noticed some strangers entering the compound and when the administrators went to find out, they were confronted by people believed to be police officers from the neighbouring Nyahururu sub county of Laikipia County who could have gone to collect money from the distillery.
It is then that the administrator alerted the Nyandarua West sub county Deputy County Commissioner who in turn alerted the County security bosses who rushed to the scene. By that time the men from Nyahururu had hurriedly left the scene.