CUSTODYThe two senior county officers spent the night in custody, awaiting arraignment in court. “We arrested two county officers and questioned them over their alleged involvement in the burning of a charcoal truck at Kanyonyoo,” Mr Bosire told the Nation on the phone. He, however, said the police crackdown on the arson suspects was not aimed at frustrating the Kitui County Government’s ban on charcoal trade. The charcoal truck was burnt on Wednesday last week after it was impounded along the Mwingi-Nairobi highway. Transporters in Kiambu County on Saturday held protests demanding Mrs Ngilu’s arrest for allegedly inciting youth to burn lorries transporting charcoal in Kitui.

Source: Daily Nation February 13, 2018 07:18 UTC