Details have emerged of a plot by some police officers to benefit from money set aside to compensate internally displaced persons.
The names of about seven officers currently in Njoro District are alleged to have been fraudulently inserted in a compensation list targeting families who were evicted from Mau forest and that has already been sent to the ministry of devolution.
The officers are set to benefit from Sh200,000 each should their trick sail through. According to a detective who discovered this, the officers are not genuine IDPs and therefore should never have been earmarked for compensation.
"It is quite shocking that police officers who were never displaced have been approved for compensation,” he said. The detective went ahead to claim that the officers were not residents of Sigotik, Kapkembu and Teret within the water tower where the evictions had taken place.
According to deputy county commissioner Noor Hassan, only four names of police officers featured in the list. He, however, promised to investigate if they were genuinely evicted.
"Yes we have seen about four names of police officers in the list and we will investigate to find out if they were truly evicted," he said without giving further details.
Three weeks ago Deputy President William Ruto launched the last and final phase of the compensation-cum- resettlement exercise in Njoro during which he said the government had set aside about Sh2 billion for the exercise.