By Dickens Wasonga

It was the end of the road for three suspects whom the police nubbed while ferrying relief food from Muhoroni district to Kisumu with the intention to sell.

According to the Kisumu CID chief Peter Matu, the trio were arrested at Miwani area by police on patrol following a tip off.

When the police intercepted them, they failed to produce document of purchase and the officers got into action when they spotted the GOK labels in the 50 kgs bags.

It is understood that the suspects told the police that they obtained the 250 bags of rice meant for relief from the government stores in Chemelil where it was being kept.

It was not immediately clear whether the trio broke into the stores to get the food given that such places are usually guarded round the clock by armed seccurity personnel.

The DCIO said the three who were being held at the Kisumu’s central police will appear in court today.

Cases of theft of food meant for relief is not unique in the region. Three years ago several bags of maize and beans were seized at the famous Kibuye market while on sale.

After that incident several senior administrators from whose area the relief food was traced were reshuffled.

Members of the public have also on various occasions accused chiefs and their assistant of being behind attempts to divert such food given to alleviate hunger during drought or floods or just giving preference to their relatives and cronies.

Meanwhile a suspected car jacker was on Thursday lynched in Kisumu. The suspect had posed as a stranded passenger seeking a lift at night when a good Samaritan offered to rescue him.
Little did the motorist realize that he had offered a lift to a thief who pounced on him with a panga.

He raised alarm and members of the public came to rescue but ended up lynching the suspect. Area OCDP Musa Radoli confirmed the incident.

And in Manyatta estate a middle aged man was also killed by irate members of the public in what the police described was a love related fall out.

According to the police, the slain man had earlier snatched a lady from another said to be a motor cyclist in the estate.

The deceased upon taking away the woman, he left to his house but the aggrieved man went and mobilized his colleagues who traced him and burnt him. The deceased,is said to work in one of the local bara as a security man.

Police said they have since launched investigations into the incident warning the public against taking the law unto their hands. nobody has been arrested so far.

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