EACC: two Kenya Power Coast officers held over alleged Sh100,000 Bombolulu bribe
Key points
- EACC arrested Inspector Benjamin Ochieng and Corporal Said Bakari, attached to Kenya Power’s Coast Regional Office, on 24 August 2026.
- The pair allegedly demanded Sh100,000 from a Bombolulu resident they accused of an illegal electricity connection, offering to stop further action if he paid.
- A sting took them to a bank on Moi Avenue; they were arrested opposite DTB Bank after allegedly receiving Sh50,000 of the demand.
- They were booked at Central Police Station and released on Sh30,000 cash bail each. EACC says the electricity-connection claim, the Sh100,000 demand and the Sh50,000 handover are still under inquiry.
Opposite DTB Bank on Moi Avenue, on Monday 24 August 2026, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission officers stopped two men in Kenya Power Coast kit. That is the scene Eastleigh Voice put on Tuesday’s crime file: Inspector Benjamin Ochieng and Corporal Said Bakari, attached to the Kenya Power Coast Regional Office, arrested after they allegedly took Sh50,000 from a Bombolulu resident.
The resident had gone to EACC first. The officers, the complaint says, confronted him over an alleged illegal electricity hook-up at his house and asked for Sh100,000 to kill the file. Investigators then ran an operation: the two accompanied the complainant to a bank along Moi Avenue to collect the money. The commission says they were seized after taking half the asked sum. Central Police Station booked them. Each walked on Sh30,000 cash bail while the inquiry continues. EACC’s public line is familiar: public officers must work with integrity; criminal charges follow if the evidence holds. What the commission has not yet tabled is a charge sheet, a Kenya Power disciplinary notice, or the name of the Bombolulu complainant. The alleged illegal connection is itself still an allegation inside the bribery file — it is not a proved Kenya Power disconnection. A Sh50,000 handover, if proved, is the sting; the remaining Sh50,000 was never the whole demand. Readers should treat bail as a booking fact, not an acquittal.
Bail does not close the Bombolulu file
EACC still has to show the demand, the bank CCTV or marked notes, and whether Kenya Power had any live disconnection case at that house.
Crime desk: Crime. Verified 24 August sting, two named officers, Sh100,000/Sh50,000 and Sh30,000 bail from Eastleigh Voice.
EACC should say when the inquiry files at ODPP. Kenya Power Coast should say if the officers are interdicted.
Bombolulu residents with a similar demand should use the EACC complaint desk, not a cash meeting on Moi Avenue.
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Based on Eastleigh Voice reporting of EACC’s 24–25 August Mombasa operation. Charges had not been read in that account.
