DCI shares photos of Kenyans caught on camera looting shops during protests: "Do you know them?"

DCI shares photos of Kenyans caught on camera looting shops during protests: "Do you know them?"

Amos Khaemba, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

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Nairobi - The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has released photos of Kenyans who took advantage of the anti-Finance Bill protests to loot shops.

In a statement on Monday, July 1, DCI said some Kenyans with criminal minds took advantage of the situation and devised schemes to cause harm and economically frustrate fellow Kenyans.

"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," DCI said.

DCI said it had retrieved numerous CCTV footage that captured identifiable persons stealing from shops around Nairobi CBD.

"In that regard, the DCI’s Imaging and Acoustic Unit domiciled at the National Forensic Laboratory has since retrieved numerous CCTV footages that captured identifiable persons, whose felonious acts isolate them from the hundreds of thousands that stuck to their course," DCI stated.

DCI is appealing to Kenyans who might have any information regarding the people captured on camera stealing to share them.

"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. Do you know any of them? Please report to any police station or #FichuakwaDCI by calling our toll-free hotline 0800 722 203," the detectives said.