BUSIA, Kenya, Jan 18 – Police in Busia have arrested a 22 year old lady for impersonating as police officer.
Jacinta Merlin Ouma was arrested Wednesday in Bukhalalire, Butula subcounty by police officers from Butula police station after a tip off from the public.
The suspect who was enroute to Butula police station dressed in a GSU uniform with AK47 riffle was ambushed and upon questioning it was discovered that she did have proper documentation to serve as a police.
The suspect was arraigned in Busia high court before magistrate Peter Olengo where she pleaded guilty to impersonation.
She will be remanded at Bumala police station for 21 days to enable the investing police officer complete their investigations.
Reliable sources have told KNA that the suspect has been roaming in police stations across the country including Kabete police station, a number of police stations in kisumu and busia posing as a police officer.
“We suspected her while on duty at Bumala police and we had her arrested and we found a lot of pictures in her phone with full GSU uniform and a fire arm but she could not explain herself in which police station she from and we had her arrested for investigation to be done,”said DCIO said.
In her defence before the magistrate Olengo she told the court that she bought the uniform at the industrial area in Nairobi and the fire arm was given to her by a police officer while in Kabete police station just to take photos.
“I bought the uniform in industrial area and I just wanted to put on the uniform so that people can know am a police officer and I do not have the gun I was only given by a police officer to take photos,” she said to the judge.
On the other hand according to our investigation the lady has two tiktok accounts one of which is private under a registered name church girl 28 and one cannot access it until she accepts your request, and the other account registered under the name marychloe 63 has videos of her puting on AP uniform.
Caption: IMG 042-Jacinta meriline ouma who was arrested as an impersonator in full GSU uniform and a fire arm at Kabete police station in Kiambu.
