Hessy ni nani? Police try to find out identity of crime-buster

Piece by: Geoffrey Mbuthia
Lifestyle

Detectives from the Cyber crime Unit were looking for a Nairobi blogger and an AP officer accused of posting images of police suspects and victims of police shooting.

Investigators believe an officer based at Soweto AP camp feeds the blogger with the photos.

The two are said to be the faces behind the Facebook accounts code-named Hessy wa Kayole and Hessy wa Huruma, which shot to fame after the shooting of Claire Mwaniki, wife of a “notorious” robber known as Mwaniki, on May 11.

To while away the time, and with constant briefing from his colleagues in the field, he decided to create the accounts.

Initially, his colleagues from the Regular Police wing were opposed to the idea as it contravened the police service regulations, but with time, they slowly came to terms with it.

“I faced a lot of opposition from my colleagues from the DCI and Regular Police, but because I was doing nothing wrong, I decided to continue,” the father of one said.

He created the accounts when there was a lot of pressure from top cops in Nairobi over rising crimes in Kayole.