A junior police officer identified as Wycliffe Ombedde accused the Deputy Inspector general of police Edward Mbugua of stealing his wife.
Speaking exclusively to K24 digital, Ombede could not hold back his tears while narrating how he was called by a person who identified himself as the Deputy IG. He said that the caller asked him to stay away from the woman in question or else he will face the consequences.
“The man who took my wife called me and introduced himself as my boss then further revealed that he is the Deputy Inspector General of Police. I didn’t believe it because I did not expect someone of Mbugua’s caliber to threaten his junior as he did,” Ombede narrated.
The caller allegedly informed Ombede that he has paid dowry for the woman while asking him to keep off from her.
“I’m calling to let you know that the girlfriend of yours is now my wife and you should keep off from her. You are a junior officer so I want you to keep off completely. I have cleared her dowry from her parents so keep off her or I will deal with you,” the caller allegedly told Mbugua.
The officer said that he spent over Kshs1 million to educate his ex-wife and cater for her personal needs since meeting her in 2008 while in Mombasa. At the time she was in Form 4 at Sacred Hearts Secondary School.
“She was from a poor family so I financed her studies in medicine,” he lamented.
He also claimed that after her graduation, he paid Ksh150, 000 as dowry to officially marry her.
Responding to Ombedes’s allegations, the National police service rubbished the claims terming them malicious and distasteful.
“The National Police Service has taken note of some distasteful, malicious and unprofessional reporting appearing online and attributed to some media houses linking a senior police officer to some love triangle involving a junior officer and his wife,” NPS said in a tweet.
In subsequent messages, said that the report did not seek the police boss’s comment.
“The said reporting fails to name the officer and wife involved, but goes ahead to name the senior officer, and more so, without seeking out his comment as expected. We find this reporting very malicious, ill-willed and meant to assassinate the character of the senior officer,” NPS stated.
NPS further urged Kenyans to ignore such reports while calling upon media houses to exercise professionalism while reporting.
The motivation remains unclear. Kenyans are urged to ignore the said sensational online media reporting. We also urge the media to exercise professionalism in reporting that has the potentiality of character assasination,” NPS added.
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