Directorate of Criminal Investigations has kicked investigation into hunting down criminals who vandalized business countrywide during last week Generation Z protests.
According to DCI , they are looking for groups with criminal minds who took advantage of the situation and devised schemes to cause harm and economically frustrate fellow Kenyans.
“When the Kenyan youths (Gen Z) organized nationwide peaceful protests to exercise their democratic right rejecting the proposed 2024/2025 Finance Bill, other
Posing as demonstrators, the bad elements who were also well-organized earmarked several business premises including boutiques, electronic shops and supermarkets, breaking in and massively looting to the detriment of innocent business owners.
As a criminal investigative agency, it squarely falls within the mandate of the DCI to investigate and bring to book any persons involved in such outright criminality, which not only robbed numerous Kenyans their means of livelihood, but also worked towards compromising an otherwise crucial constitutional right.” A statement shared on the agency’s Socials reads
The police further claimed the DCI’s Imaging and Acoustic Unit based at the National Forensic Laboratory has since retrieved numerous CCTV footages that captured identifiable persons, whose felonious acts isolates them from the hundreds of thousands that stuck to their course.
They agency is now appealing for information into bringing to book those on the run.
“We can flush them from amongst our numbers because they do not share the principles that define what we stand for, and more so for the sake of those who did not deserve to lose their only means of livelihood in this manner.” Statement ends
