Kilifi Cops Blast TikTokers Who Staged Mugging Incident In Front Of Police Station

• Law enforcers from Kilifi castigated a trio of content creators who produced a prank video in front of a police station and shared it online
• Playing the role of robbers, two of them robbed their colleague, leaving onlookers and social media users blaming the police over supposed laxity
• The police accusers who fell prey to the events in the viral clip wondered how robbery would take place a few metres away from their station

Kai Eli, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

Police have addressed a viral clip showing a man being robbed in front of a police station in Kilifi.

The man, seemingly drunk, was captured walking as a loner before two other men onboard a motorcycle appeared.

Man's encounter with 'robbers' near police station

They slowed down before one of them alighted and carried out a sweep kick on the 'drunk' man, who got to the ground without any resistance.

The two men on the motorcycle robbed him before they later sped off, leaving their 'victim' on the ground, with onlookers expressing shock given the display was near the aforesaid police station.

The video was uploaded to the short-video streaming platform TikTok and spread to other platforms like X (previously Twitter).

Those reacting to the events in the clip argued the police at the station must be toothless for such scenes to happen in their vicinity.

Having fallen prey to the events in the clip, the concerned netizens were disturbed by the apparent bravery of criminals to undertake their acts near state security installations.

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What did police in Kilifi say?

Reacting to the accusations sent their way, the police flagged the contents of the clip as prank gimmicks.

A police report sighted by TUKO.co.ke states that the trio had sought to perform their display at a nearby canteen but were barred.

"It was reported by one Roy Rick Otieno, the manager AP canteen Kilifi that today at around 0830hrs a stranger entered the said canteen and approached a steward who was cleaning requesting for permission to shoot a video inside the premise. He was denied but went ahead and stage-managed a prank together with his three accomplices; one guy pretended to be drunk and got robbed by two other guys who were on a motorcycle while another was recording," read the report partly.

The police decried being painted in a bad light by the content creators whose production suggested they (police) are laxed and insensitive to insecurity.

The law enforcers said action had been taken against the trio of TikTokers.

Kisumu cop robbed

In other news, a police officer was recently robbed by a quartet of civilians who drove off with the government vehicle he was in.

The motive behind the attack in Kisumu by the men was not established immediately.

According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) investigators, one of the attackers was armed with an AK47 rifle.

The officer based at the Nyamasaria police post was also robbed of other personal items, including an ATM and a laptop bag.

Proofreading by Otukho Jackson, a multimedia journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke