In a thrilling turn of events straight out of an action movie (minus the Hollywood glamour), Nakuru’s most feared gang of gun-toting goons has finally met its match courtesy of Kenya’s finest crime-busting brains and boots.
Dubbed the “Terror Five” by locals, the group had turned Nakuru County into a nightly horror series, featuring surprise gunfire, daylight machete madness, and vanishing shop profits. But the credits rolled for the villains this weekend when detectives from DCI’s Operation Action Team, joined by their Crime Research Bureau cousins, stormed in like a Netflix finale and busted them out of hiding.
The intel-driven raid was pulled off with military precision, leaving the gang no room to pull a disappearing act. After sweating it out under interrogation lights, one of them cracked, leading officers to the Rhoda area. And lo! Hidden among dry grass near a residential home, like a misplaced sufuri, was the group’s star player: an AK-47 assault rifle (serial number 18916) with three rounds of unfinished business.
Unfortunately, this was no gang of comic book villains. Just the night before, June 1st, they ambushed patrolling officers, killing one and leaving two others hospitalised. That attack was swiftly followed by a horrific incident in Soilo, where they descended on a young shop owner with machetes and daggers, stole hundreds of thousands, dragged him outside, and coldly executed him.
The five suspects, William Nywhili Rioba, Nyahili Nyamuhaga Magige, Emmanuel Muita Muita, Catherine Nkatha Zakayo, and Peter Chach, are now in DCI’s iron grip and will be paraded before the courts on Tuesday, June 3rd.
Meanwhile, DCI Nakuru East is serving a hot plate of reassurance to locals. Sleep easy, Nakuru! More anti-robbery units are now on the streets, sniffing out thugs like bloodhounds on a mission. Armed gangs still at large have officially been put on notice.
The message is loud and clear. If you’ve been running riot in Nakuru, your sequel has been cancelled!
So yes, citizens, the guns are going silent and peace is back on the playlist.