Police warn residents against city firm buses
A City Hoppa bus in town.
Police have warned commuters against travelling in certain buses in Nairobi, saying they risked being robbed.
Inspector-General of Police David Kimaiyo said a
number of buses belonging to Citi Hoppa had been carjacked and the
drivers and conductors were suspected of colluding with the gangsters.
He said a bus belonging to the firm was carjacked in Nairobi every day and the management had refused to cooperate with police.
The IG posted a warning on his official Facebook
page. “Citi Hoppa will be withdrawn from the roads because they carry at
least two criminals in the morning and evening, thus commuters are
hijacked and robbed,” he said.
Earlier, Nairobi police chief Benson Kibui had
asked the firm’s managers to come to Buruburu police station following a
carjacking on Thursday.
The full bus left the city at 8pm but stopped on
Jogoo Road and picked up seven men who turned out to be robbers. “Three
passengers were injured by the carjackers who drove the bus to Githogoro
slums. They dumped them there after robbing them,” said Mr Kibui.
Citi Hoppa operations manager Githaiga Weru denied
the claims. “We attended the meeting at Buruburu police station where
17 matatu saccos and bus companies were represented and were all
complaining about their vehicles being carjacked. Why should police pick
on us?” he asked.
On claims that the firm had defied orders to frisk
passengers on boarding, Mr Weru said: “All our bus stops are manned by
uniformed crew carrying metal detectors.”
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